Boris Gerasimenko
Boris Gerasimenko, Krasnodar Krai. Charges: Article 284.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an undesirable organization); “The case of Boris Gerasimenko”. Sentence (May 4, 2023): 2 years' deprivation of liberty on probation for 2 years, with deprivation of the right to engage in activities related… Status: at large.
In brief
Krasnodar Krai · Novorossiysk · NGO staff
Sentence
2 years
deprivation of liberty on probation for 2 years, with deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to the administration of websites using electronic and informational and telecommunicational networks, including the Internet, for 5 years
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 284.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an undesirable organization
Full wording of the charges
10.03.2022, by the decision of the Ramenskiy City Court of the Moscow region, Gerasimenko B.B. was brought to administrative responsibility under article 20.33 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation in connection with participation in the activities of an international non-governmental organisation on the territory of the Russian Federation, in respect to which a decision was taken to declare its activities undesirable on the territory of the Russian Federation - the International Christian Movement "New Generation", which was expressed in the fact that on 02.12.2021 at 17:35 hours B.B. Gerasimenko, being at the address: Moscow region. According to the investigation, despite this, stored and thereby distributed on the personal pages of users used personally by Gerasimenko with the pseudonyms "Boris" (e-mail address: <danii yatty>), "Novorossiysk" (<danii yatty>), "Boris Gerasimenko" (<danii yatty>), which are openly accessible to an indefinite number of persons among the users of the social network "YouTube" and "VKontakte", information materials, published by the foreign non-governmental organisation Spiritual Administration of Evangelical Christians of the Ukrainian Christian Church "New Generation" (Ukraine), "Evangelisko kristiesu baznica "Jauna Paaudze" (Evangelical Christian Church "New Generation") (Republic of Latvia), International Christian Movement "New Generation" (Republic of Latvia).
Latest event
May 4, 2023 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict: 2 years.
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Persecution begins
The case of Boris Gerasimenko
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
Criminal case
The case of Boris Gerasimenko
Thematic group: The case of the "New Generation"
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Novorossiysk. On 2 December 2021, he was detained in Ramenskoye near Moscow together with other participants of the conference of Protestant churches "New Generation", an organisation recognised as "undesirable" on the territory of the Russian Federation. On 10 March 2022, Gerasimenko was fined five thousand rubles under an administrative article on cooperation with an "undesirable organisation". Later, a criminal case was opened against him for participation in the activities of an "undesirable organisation": according to the investigation, he posted on his VKontakte page and on his YouTube channel materials of the New Generation Association of Churches. On 5 May 2023, Gerasimenko was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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