Hasan Kogut
Hasan Kogut, born 1983, Kemerovo Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Hasan Kogut”. Sentence (September 9, 2020): two years six months' suspended imprisonment. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, January 8, 2020; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, January 8, 2020.
In brief
Kemerovo Oblast · Beryozovsky · Manual workers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
2 years 6 months
two years six months' suspended imprisonment
Upheld December 22, 2020
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
September 10, 2023 — persecution ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, January 8, 2020
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, January 8, 2020
Timeline
· Persecution ends
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 6 months
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
· Persecution begins
The case of Hasan Kogut
Criminal case
The case of Hasan Kogut
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Beryozovsky
Details and sources
Full summary
In July 2018, a search took place, during which Kogut's laptop was seized. In February 2019, an investigator called Kogut and promised to return the laptop. On 6 February, after Kogut appeared at the investigative department of the Kemerovo Region FSSB, he was detained. Two days later, the court decided to send him under house arrest on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation. Later he was released on his own recognisance.
On 10 September 2020, he was sentenced to two and a half years suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.