Dmitrii Kamynin
Dmitrii Kamynin, born 1984, Kemerovo Oblast. Charges: Article 163 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Extortion with the view to obtain property); Article 163 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Extortion with the view to obtain property, with the use of violence, committed by a group of…); “The case of human rights defender Dmitry Kamynin on extortion”, opened on January 4, 2022. Sentenced on August 7, 2024; previously convicted under Article 228.1 part 4 item g, Russian Criminal Code; Article 228.1 part 4 item g applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code; Article 228.1 part 5, Russian Criminal Code. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since February 1, 2020.
In brief
Kemerovo Oblast · Kemerovo · Human rights defenders
Sentence
3 years
Imprisonment (strict regime)
Upheld December 24, 2024
Other verdicts
- May 29, 2023 — 18 years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Charges
- Article 163 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Extortion with the view to obtain property
- Article 163 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Extortion with the view to obtain property, with the use of violence, committed by a group of persons or on a large scale
- Article 228.1 part 4 item g, Russian Criminal Code — Attempt at the illegal production, sale, or shipment of drugs or their counterparts in large amounts.
- Article 228.1 part 4 item g applied with Article 30 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Attempt at the illegal production, sale, or shipment of drugs or their counterparts in large amounts.
- Article 228.1 part 5, Russian Criminal Code — Attempt at the illegal production, sale, or shipment of drugs or their counterparts in particularly large amounts.
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, he extorted 20 thousand roubles from a resident of Kemerovo.
Latest event
December 24, 2024 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 18 years
· Criminal case opened
The case of human rights defender Dmitry Kamynin on extortion
· Persecution begins
The case of human rights defender Dmitry Kamynin on drug distribution
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for Kemerovo Oblast
Criminal case
The case of human rights defender Dmitry Kamynin on extortion
- Case number
- 1-64/2023 (1-334/2022;)
The case of human rights defender Dmitry Kamynin on drug distribution
- Case number
- 2-8/2023 (2-39/2022;)
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Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
650993, г. Кемерово, Кузнецкий пр-т, 174, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Кемеровской области, Камынин Дмитрий Владимирович, 1984 г.р.
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Full summary
A coordinator of the human rights project "Siberia Legal". He was taken into custody in February 2020. At that time Kamynin was charged with distribution of drugs on a large and particularly large scale.
On 4 January 2022, Kamynin was released from the Kemerovo pre-trial detention centre, and then immediately detained and charged with extortion. According to the investigation, he extorted 20,000 roubles from a Kemerovo resident.
The drug case was suspended for a while due to lack of evidence, but then the case was resumed.
On 29 May 2023, Kamynin was sentenced to 18 years in a strict regime penal colony in the drug case.
In September 2023, Kamynin said that he was tortured in the pre-trial detention centre. According to his testimony, the assistant head of the pre-trial detention centre, Aliuskin, repeatedly ordered his subordinates to beat the human rights defender with a stun gun and drag him on the floor into the cell, as Kamynin writes. In at least one case, the reason for such treatment was the man's refusal to hand over legal literature to the pre-trial detention centre's staff before taking him into the cell. The staff refuses to accept care packages sent to Kamynin on the pretext that he is currently en route to court to consider an appeal against his sentence.
No later than 2025, a new case was initiated against Kamynin on the grounds of fraud in receiving payments.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- pre-trial detention
- Persecution episodes
- 2
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