Yuri Baranov
Yuri Baranov, born 1952, Vologda Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Vologda”. Sentence (September 4, 2022): four years' suspended sentence. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, December 11, 2020; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, April 5, 2020.
In brief
Vologda Oblast · Vologda · Pensioners · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
4 years
four years' suspended sentence
Upheld November 9, 2022
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
involved in the resumption of activities of the banned local community of Jehovah's Witnesses "Vologda"
Latest event
December 13, 2022 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 11, 2020
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 5, 2020
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Imprisonment begins
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: ban on certain activities
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Persecution begins
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Vologda
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Vologda
Other defendants in the case
- Nikolay Stepanov — At large, 4 years
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Vologda
Details and sources
Full summary
On 19 December 2019, he was detained after a search as part of a criminal case on organising activities of an extremist organisation. On 21 December, the court decided to place Baranov under house arrest. On 16 March 2020, a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions has been chosen. On 5 September 2022, he was sentenced to a four-year suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.