Sergey Loginov
Sergey Loginov, born 1961, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut”. Sentence (December 5, 2023): 7 years' 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, May 30, 2019.
In brief
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug · Surgut · Engineers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
7 years
suspended sentence
Upheld February 20, 2025
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
delivered speeches, participated in preaching ministry with local "Jehovah's Witnesses", held meetings with "pioneers", "elders" and "office assistants", including for the purpose of organising the activities of "elders" in the "Vzletnoye" "assembly"
Latest event
February 20, 2025 — 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, May 30, 2019
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 7 years
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· 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
· Preventive measure: ban on certain activities
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut
Criminal case
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut
Other defendants in the case
- Ilkhom Aminjanov — At large
- Vyacheslav Boronos — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Vasiliy Burenescu — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Sergey Volosnikov — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Savely Gargalyk — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Timofey Zhukov — At large, 7 years
- Eugeniy Kairyak — At large, 6 years 10 months
- Artem Kim — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Igor Kobotov — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Grigorii Ozhiganov — At large
- Igor Petrov — At large, 6 years 5 months
- Alexey Plekhov — At large, 6 years 3 months
- Pavel Romashov — At large, 6 years 7 months
- Leonid Rysikov — At large, 6 years 9 months
- Artur Severinchik — At large, 6 years 3 months
- Igor Trifonov — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Evgeniy Fedin — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Viktor Fefilov — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Viola Shepel — At large, 3 years 3 months
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Details and sources
Full summary
February 15, 2019 he was detained after a home search. His lawyer said that Loginov was tortured in the building of the Investigative Committee in Surgut. He was released but then detained again and forced to sign a statement that no one had tortured him. On February 17 Loginov was taken into custody by court decision on charges of participation in an extremist organization. On April 11 Loginov was released from custody and given a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions. On November 15, 2021 the preventive measure was changed to a recognizance not to leave. On December 5, 2023, he was sentenced to seven years of suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- travel ban (written undertaking)
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.