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Vladimir Alushkin

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Vladimir Alushkin, born 1964, Penza Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “Case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Penza”. Sentence (December 8, 2021): four years' conditioned prison sentence. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, September 15, 2018; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, September 15, 2018.

In brief

Penza Oblast · Penza · Scientists · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses

Sentence

4 years

four years' conditioned prison sentence

Sentence changed December 8, 2021

First instance, December 12, 2019: 6 years

Charges

Full wording of the charges

With reliable knowledge of the ban of the Jehovah's Witnesses Management Centre in Russia and its structural subdivisions, from July 2017 to July 2018, he resumed and organised the activities of the local religious organisation of Jehovah's Witnesses "Arbekovo, Penza"; "carried out the general management of the organisation's activities, distributed duties among its participants and exercised control over them, instructed the involvement of new participants from among their relatives and acquaintances, and spread the ideology and beliefs of an extremist organisation among the residents of Penza, in accordance with the laws of the Republic of Penza.

Latest event

December 8, 2024 — imprisonment ends

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Imprisonment ends

  2. · Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list

  3. · Cassation ruling

    upheld

  4. · Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)

  5. · Preventive measure: pre-trial detention

    Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Penza Oblast

  6. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict · 6 years

Criminal case

Case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Penza

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Penza

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

July 15th 2018 he was detained and July 17th arrested on charges of organising activities of an extremist organisation. On January 14th 2019, he was transferred under house arrest.

On December 13th 2019, sentenced to six years in a penal colony, taken into custody in the courtroom. On February 19th 2020, it became known that Alushkin was transferred to a pre-trial detention centre in Mordovia until the case was considered on appeal. On March 25th 2020, the court of appeal instance cancelled the verdict and returned the case for a new consideration. On March 30, he was released on personal recognizance. The prosecution appealed the decision, and on July 9 the court of cassation instance returned the case to the court of appeal instance. On September 16th, the appeal court commuted Alushkin's existing sentence to a four-year suspended sentence.

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Sources (2)

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