Alexander Marchenko
Alexander Marchenko, born 1971, Krasnodar Krai. Charges: Article 226.1 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the…); “Aleksandr Marchenko's case”. Sentence (November 25, 2020): ten years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since February 19, 2019; place of detention: Prison, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, December 8, 2019; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, November 24, 2019.
In brief
Krasnodar Krai · Krasnodar · Unemployed
Sentence
10 years
ten years' imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Upheld November 15, 2021
Charges
- Article 226.1 part 1 applied with Article 30 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Illegal movement across the customs border of the Eurasian Economic Union or the State border of the Russian Federation with member states of the Eurasian Economic Union of strategically important goods and resources, cultural values, especially valuable wild animals, aquatic biological resources, plants and mushrooms.
Full wording of the charges
entered into a criminal conspiracy with a Russian citizen, V. I. Fedorenko, and agreed to purchase "two sets of electro-vacuum devices used to amplify and generate electromagnetic microwave oscillations for use in the S-300 surface-to-air missile system".
Latest event
November 15, 2021 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 8, 2019
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, November 24, 2019
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 10 years
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №5 (SIZO-5) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation
· Persecution begins
Aleksandr Marchenko's case
Criminal case
Aleksandr Marchenko's case
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Facility: Prison, Krasnoyarsk Krai
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
662606, ул. Горького д. 114 Тюрьма, Красноярский край, г. Минусинск, ФКУ «Тюрьма ГУФСИН России по Красноярскому краю», Марченко Александр Владимирович, 1971 г.р.
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Full summary
December 17, 2018, he was detained in Donetsk by officers of the Ministry of State Security of the self-proclaimed DPR. He spent two months in the departmental detention centre. According to Marchenko, he was tortured in order to get information about people from his phone's address book. February 18, 2019, Marchenko was taken to Krasnodar, where he claimed to be a witness in the criminal case. The next day, the court arrested Marchenko for 10 days under the article of the Code of Administrative Offences for disobedience to the lawful demand of a law enforcement representative. Upon leaving the special reception centre, Marchenko was arrested for 15 days and awarded a fine of two thousand rubles under the articles on disobedience to the lawful demands of law enforcement officers and on illegal labour activity of a foreign citizen on the territory of the Russian Federation without a patent. Marchenko said that representatives of the FSB Department of the Krasnodar region came to the detention centre and took him away from there. At the end of the arrest term, Marchenko was transferred to the Centre for Temporary Detention of Foreign Citizens. May 1st, 2019, the court placed him on remand in custody in the case of preparing to smuggle military equipment.
November 26, 2020, he was sentenced to ten years in a strict regime penal colony.
In February 2024, it became known that Marchenko would be transferred from the colony to prison for three years, since he violated the order of serving his sentence 18 times.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Ukraine