Yuri Chernykh
Yuri Chernykh, born 1975, Kemerovo Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Yury Chernykh on participation in the activities of an extremist organisation”. Sentence (September 28, 2023): 3 years of forced labor with 15% of earnings withheld. Status: imprisoned; place of detention: Medical correctional facility No. 16, Kemerovo Oblast.
In brief
Kemerovo Oblast · Prokopyevsk · Manual workers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
3 years of forced labor with 15% of earnings withheld
Upheld November 28, 2023
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, he provided his house for meetings and participated in online meetings of the banned religious organisation of Jehovah's Witnesses "Prokopyevsk"
Latest event
November 28, 2023 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
The case of Yury Chernykh on participation in the activities of an extremist organisation
Criminal case
The case of Yury Chernykh on participation in the activities of an extremist organisation
- Case number
- 1-22/2023 (1-209/2022;)
Write a letter
Facility: Medical correctional facility No. 16, Kemerovo Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
654101, ул. Левашова д. 42А, Кемеровская область, г. Новокузнецк, п. Абагур Лесной, ЛИУ-16 Кемеровской области, Черных Юрий Алексеевич, 1975 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
A coalman, a resident of Prokopyevsk (the Kemerovo region). On 12 July 2020, his house was searched because he appeared a witness in the case of another resident of Prokopyevsk, Andrei Vlasov, accused of organising activities of an extremist organisation. On 10 November Chernykh was searched again, this time as a suspect in the case of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation. On 26 April 2022, he was given a covenant not to leave. On 28 September 2023 Chernykh was sentenced to three years of forced labour.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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