FREEDOM

APPENDIX 8
RUSSIAN FEDERATION PRISONER LIST 2016
(Information as of December 2015, compiled by the New Chronicle of Current Events and the European
Initiative for Human Rights in the Former USSR)
Human Rights Defenders and Civil Activists
NAME AND
YEAR OF BIRTH
CASE
ARTICLES OF CRIMINAL CODE
AND PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT
SENTENCE
Mikhail Avazov
Remarks on religious themes
in personal conversations with
other inmates
282, part 1. Correctional penal
colony #5 in Nizhni Tagil
On March 30, 2015, sentenced to 1 year
and 7 months imprisonment in a penal
colony of strict regimen.
Zarema Ziyavutdinovna
Bagavutdinova,
1968
Member of the Dagestan
regional public organization
“Human Rights”
205.1, part 1. Penal colony #8,
Republic of Dagestan
On May 22, 2014, was sentenced to 5
years of imprisonment in a penal colony
of ordinary regimen.
Internet Expression
NAME AND
YEAR OF BIRTH
Dmitry Beregoshev
Victor Krasnov,
1978
Alexander Nikonov,
1988
CASE
Internet posts criticizing the
activities of the Russian
Orthodox Church
Anti-clerical posts in social
media
Anti-religious and anti-Muslim
posts in social media
ARTICLES OF CRIMINAL CODE
AND PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT
SENTENCE
282, part 1 On October 7, 2015, sentenced to 8
months of corrective works.
148, part 1 Case was initiated in early 2015.
282, part 1 On September 7, 2015, sentenced to 3
years imprisonment in a penal colony of
strict regimen.
Religion-Related Cases
The Case of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Taganrog
NAME AND
YEAR OF BIRTH
CASE
ARTICLES OF CRIMINAL CODE
AND PLACE OF IMPRISONMENT
SENTENCE
Yuriy Baklushin,
1984
Alexei Koptev,
1945
Alexander Skvortsov,
1963
Nikolai Trotsyuk,
1955
Participation in activities of the
Church of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Participation in activities of the
Church of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Participation in activities of the
Church of Jehovah’s Witnesses
Participation in activities of the
Church of Jehovah’s Witnesses
282.2, part 1 and 150, part 4 On 30 November 2015, sentenced to 5.5
years imprisonment conditionally.
282.2, part 1 and 150, part 4 On 30 November 2015, sentenced to 5
years 3 months imprisonment conditionally.
282.2, part 1 and 150, part 4 On 30 November 2015, sentenced to 5.5
years imprisonment conditionally.
282.2, part 1 and 150, part 4 On 30 November 2015, sentenced to 5.5
years imprisonment conditionally.
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