Vladislav Kolbanov
Vladislav Kolbanov, born 1992, Orenburg Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); Article 282.3 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Financing extremist activities); “The case of five Jehovah's Witnesses in Orenburg”. Sentence (August 28, 2023): 3 years 6 months' deprivation of liberty on probation for 3 years, 10 months' restriction of liberty. 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
Orenburg Oblast · Orenburg · IT specialists · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
3 years 6 months
deprivation of liberty on probation for 3 years, 10 months' restriction of liberty
Upheld January 24, 2024
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
- Article 282.3 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Financing extremist activities
Full wording of the charges
In the period from April 2017... participated in the activities of a structural subdivision of the Jehovah's Witnesses LRO (Local Religious Organization) by convening and holding meetings, organising the recruitment of new members, and communicating the content of religious literature texts to meeting participants.
Latest event
January 24, 2024 — 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
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years 6 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Persecution begins
The case of five Jehovah's Witnesses in Orenburg
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
The case of five Jehovah's Witnesses in Orenburg
Other defendants in the case
- Nikolay Zhugin — At large, 2 years 6 months
- Vladimir Kochnev — At large, 2 years 6 months
- Pavel Lekontsev — At large, 3 years
- Sergey Logunov — At large, 2 years 6 months
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Orenburg
Details and sources
Full summary
On 16 May 2018, he was detained and placed under house arrest on 19 May on charges of organising activities of an extremist organisation. On 12 October, the preventive measure was changed to a ban on certain actions.
On 14 January 2020, the court returned the case to the prosecutor's office, but it later came back to the court. On 28 August 2023, Kolbanov was sentenced to three 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.