Sergey Litvinov
Sergey Litvinov, born 1983, Rostov Oblast. Charges: Article 162 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Robbery (assault with intent to rob)); “The case of Sergei Litvinov”. Sentence (April 19, 2016): Eight years six months of imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, May 9, 2016.
In brief
Rostov Oblast · Former military personnel
Sentence
8 years 6 months
Eight years six months of imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Upheld August 8, 2016
Charges
- Article 162 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Robbery (assault with intent to rob)
Full wording of the charges
Together with two unidentified Ukrainian security forces, stole an Opel Frontera and a UAZ 452 from a Russian citizen, Alexander Lysenko, and beat Lysenko himself in the summer of 2014, in the village of Konstantinovka, Stanichno-Lugansk district.
Latest event
March 13, 2019 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, May 9, 2016
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 8 years 6 months
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Rostov Region
· Persecution begins
The case of Sergei Litvinov
Criminal case
The case of Sergei Litvinov
Details and sources
Full summary
Serhiy Litvinov is a citizen of Ukraine. He was detained in August 2014 when he travelled to the territory of Russia to have his teeth treated. He was accused of involvement in the mass murder and rape of civilians in the Luhansk region. According to him, he has pleaded guilty and testified with details through torture. In November 2015, this charge was dropped, but a new episode appeared in his case - about the robbery of Russian citizen Alexander Lysenko in the Luhansk region. According to the investigation, he and two other unidentified Ukrainian law enforcers, had stolen the Opel Frontera and UAZ 452 cars from Lysenko in the summer of 2014 in the village of Konstantinovka, Stanichno-Luhansk district, and had beaten Lysenko himself. Ukrainian border guards said that Lysenko was not on Ukrainian territory at that time.
In April 2016, he was sentenced to eight and a half years in a strict regime colony.
In March 2019, he was transferred to a colony in the Kharkiv region of Ukraine. He was released in July 2019 after being pardoned by the President of Ukraine.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
Other people prosecuted under Article 162 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.