Sergey Ledenev
Sergey Ledenev, born 1974, Kamchatka Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Sergei Ledenev”. Sentence (November 23, 2020): two years of 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 30, 2019.
In brief
Kamchatka Krai · Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky · Manual workers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
2 years
two years of suspended sentence
Upheld January 18, 2021
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
held Jehovah's Witnesses meetings at least twice a week in a flat on Daurskaya Street, organised collective worship services, distributed literature with "extremist content", conducted "scheduled training" of citizens in Jehovah's Witnesses' tenets, and organised the viewing of Jehovah's Witnesses' videos, "thereby involving these persons in the activities of an extremist organisation"
Latest event
October 17, 2022 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
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 30, 2019
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Persecution begins
The case of Sergei Ledenev
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
Criminal case
The case of Sergei Ledenev
Details and sources
Full summary
In December 2018, it became known about the initiation of a case of organising the activities of an extremist organisation. Ledenev had signed a personal recognizance.
On 12 December 2019, the court returned the case to the prosecutor's office. But on 4 February 2020, the court of appeal reversed this decision and returned the case to the court of first instance. On 24 November, he was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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