Alexei Eliseev
Alexei Eliseev, born 1983, Murmansk Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “Jehovah's Witnesses' case in Snezhnogorsk”. Sentence (May 15, 2023): A fine of 450 thousand roubles. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, August 11, 2021.
In brief
Murmansk Oblast · Snezhnogorsk · Mechanics · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
A fine of 450 thousand roubles
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Seeking technical means and devices connected to the Internet, organising personal delivery of sermons, discussion of religious literature and its texts
Latest event
May 15, 2023 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, August 11, 2021
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
Jehovah's Witnesses' case in Snezhnogorsk
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
Jehovah's Witnesses' case in Snezhnogorsk
Other defendants in the case
- Yunona Ilyasova — At large
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Snezhnogorsk
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Murmansk region. Detained on 21 July 2021 after a search, interrogated in the framework of the case of organising activities of an extremist organisation. On 22 July he signed a non-departure undertaking. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely because of their religious activities - holding meetings and worship services and attracting new supporters. On 15 May 2023 Eliseev was sentenced to a fine of 450 thousand rubles.
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.