Boris Batyi
- Criminal Code
- Article 146 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Region
- Rostov Oblast
- City
- Rostov
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as persecuted on political groundsby Memorial Human Rights Centre, 11 August 2011
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Case summary
held under a custodial sentence since 12 June 2009 for more than two years on charges of purchasing unlicensed Microsoft and Autodesk software; according to Batyi, no Autocad software was found when the computers were seized; case closed due to the amnesty of 2 July 2013
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Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database
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