Eugeniy Kairyak
Eugeniy Kairyak, born 1986, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut”. Sentence (December 5, 2023): 6 years 10 months' suspended sentence. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, January 8, 2020; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, January 8, 2020.
In brief
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug · Surgut · Engineers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
6 years 10 months
suspended sentence
Upheld February 20, 2025
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
delivered speeches, participated in preaching ministry with local "Jehovah's Witnesses", held meetings with "pioneers", "elders" and "office assistants", including for the purpose of organising the activities of "elders" in the "Vzletnoye" "assembly"
Latest event
February 20, 2025 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, January 8, 2020
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, January 8, 2020
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years 10 months
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: ban on certain activities
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Persecution begins
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut
Criminal case
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut
Other defendants in the case
- Ilkhom Aminjanov — At large
- Vyacheslav Boronos — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Vasiliy Burenescu — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Sergey Volosnikov — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Savely Gargalyk — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Timofey Zhukov — At large, 7 years
- Artem Kim — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Igor Kobotov — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Sergey Loginov — At large, 7 years
- Grigorii Ozhiganov — At large
- Igor Petrov — At large, 6 years 5 months
- Alexey Plekhov — At large, 6 years 3 months
- Pavel Romashov — At large, 6 years 7 months
- Leonid Rysikov — At large, 6 years 9 months
- Artur Severinchik — At large, 6 years 3 months
- Igor Trifonov — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Evgeniy Fedin — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Viktor Fefilov — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Viola Shepel — At large, 3 years 3 months
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Details and sources
Full summary
On February 15, 2019 he was detained after a home search regarding a case of activities of an extremist organization. He reported torture and was placed under house arrest. In May a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions was elected. On November 15, 2021 the preventive measure was changed to a recognizance not to leave. On December 5, 2023 he was sentenced to six years and ten months of suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- travel ban (written undertaking)
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.