Valerii Gurskii
- Criminal Code
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism casesCases against Jehovah's Witnesses
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 6 years
- Date of verdict
- 2025-11-21
- Region
- Voronezh Oblast
- City
- Voronezh
- Address for letters
- 394030, Воронежская область, г. Воронеж, ул. Желябова, 56, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Воронежской области, Гурский Валерий Иванович, 1963 г.р.
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religionby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 5 November 2020
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Case summary
A resident of the Voronezh region. On 13 July 2020, Gurskii's house was searched, after which he was detained. Later, the court decided to take him into custody in the case of organising activities of an extremist organisation. On 2 December, a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions was chosen.
On 21 November 2025, the court sentenced him to six years in a general regime colony.
Others charged under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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