Sergei Kornilevsky
Sergei Kornilevsky is listed as imprisoned, but other details in the same record do not agree:
- the 2 years 6 months term (verdict of May 8, 2024), counted from February 15, 2024 without credit for time served, ended on August 14, 2026.
Sergei Kornilevsky, born 1963, Jewish Autonomous Oblast. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); “Sergei Kornilevsky's case on public justification of terrorism”. Sentence (May 8, 2024): 2 years 6 months' imprisonment in a general regime colony. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, December 13, 2024.
In brief
Jewish Autonomous Oblast · Birobidzhan · Artists, Journalists · Anti-war cases, Terrorism cases
Sentence
2 years 6 months
imprisonment in a general regime colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
The ground for initiating the case was a comment about Ruslan Zinin who had shot a military commander in Ust-Ilimsk: "With a wound or without a wound, that's still a perfect shot <...> So at least not for nothing."
Latest event
December 13, 2024 — recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, December 13, 2024
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 6 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Jewish Autonomous Oblast
· Persecution begins
Sergei Kornilevsky's case on public justification of terrorism
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
Sergei Kornilevsky's case on public justification of terrorism
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Details and sources
Full summary
A theatre professional and a journalist of the state television company of the Jewish Autonomous Region. He was detained presumably on 15 February 2024. He told an acquaintance that the charge against him was a post about mobilization published on Facebook in 2022. The next day Mr. Kornilevsky was placed in custody. Later it became known that the criminal charges were based on a comment about Ruslan Zinin, who had shot a military commander in Ust-Ilimsk. On 8 May 2024, Mr. Kornilevsky was sentenced to 2 years 6 months in prison.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of detention
- Penal colony No. 13, Sverdlovsk Oblast
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.