Pavel Kazadaev
Pavel Kazadaev is listed as imprisoned, but other details in the same record do not agree:
- the 3 years term (verdict of June 5, 2024), counted from August 18, 2023 without credit for time served, ended on August 17, 2026.
Pavel Kazadaev, born 1996, Altai Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Pavel Kazadaev”. Sentence (May 26, 2023): 3 years of imprisonment suspended with restriction of liberty for 6 months and a probationary period of 2 years.
In brief
Altai Krai · Barnaul · Unemployed · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
3 years
of imprisonment suspended with restriction of liberty for 6 months and a probationary period of 2 years
Upheld June 5, 2024
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, 'being an active member of an extremist organisation, Pavel carried out actions to support the existence of the assembly on the territory of Altai krai, including by conducting conversations'.
Latest event
June 5, 2024 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
The case of Pavel Kazadaev
Criminal case
The case of Pavel Kazadaev
Details and sources
Full summary
In May 2021, the Investigative Committee accused Pavel Kazadaev of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation due to his involvement in the Jehovah's Witnesses community. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely for religious activities: meetings, joint worship services, attraction of new supporters.
This was followed by mass searches of Jehovah's Witnesses in Altai krai. The law enforcers searched the house of Pavel's relatives in the village of Lugovoye, as well as his flat in Novokuznetsk (Kemerovo region), after which the believer was taken to Barnaul for interrogation.
After twenty-four hours in the isolation ward, Pavel was given restriction of travel. At the end of June 2022, the criminal case was brought to court.
In April 2023, Pavel Kazadaev was sentenced to a 3-year suspended sentence. In August, the appeal court toughened the sentence, replacing the suspended sentence with imprisonment in a penal colony for 3 years.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of detention
- Penal colony No. 5, Altai Krai
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.