Yuri Mukhin
Yuri Mukhin, born 1949, Moscow. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of the "Army of the Will of the People"”, opened on July 29, 2015. Sentence (August 9, 2017): 4 years of suspended prison sentence with 4 years of probation period. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, October 28, 2015; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, August 23, 2015.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Journalists · Extremism cases
Sentence
4 years
of suspended prison sentence with 4 years of probation period
Upheld December 20, 2017
Charges
- Article 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
"actively engaged in political activity, positioning themselves as persons in opposition to the State authorities of the Russian Federation", "under the plausible pretext of organising and holding a referendum" on the adoption of an amendment to the Constitution and the law "On the trial of the people of Russia over the President and members of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation", wanted to continue the activities of the banned "Army of the Will of the People", with the "main and only goal" of the organisation being the dissemination of extremist materials.
Latest event
October 29, 2021 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, October 28, 2015
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, August 23, 2015
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Criminal case opened
The case of the "Army of the Will of the People"
· Persecution begins
Case of Yuri Mukhin
Criminal case
Case of Yuri Mukhin
The case of the "Army of the Will of the People"
Other defendants in the case
- Kirill Barabash — At large, 3 years 10 months
- Valery Parfenov — At large, 3 years 10 months
- Alexander Sokolov — At large, 3 years 6 months
Thematic group: The case of the "Army of the Will of the People"
Details and sources
Full summary
Publicist. On 13 April 2011, the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office reported that a criminal case had been initiated under part 1 of article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (incitement to ethnic hatred) over the publication of Yuri Mukhin's article "I have advice, too" in the "K barieru" newspaper of 06.10.2009. The experts concluded that the article contained "statements aimed at humiliating the dignity of a person or a group of persons on the grounds of nationality, namely the attitude towards the Russian and the Jewish nation". On 31 May 2011, three days before the end of the investigation, Mukhin was indicted; the case was dismissed in July 2011. On 29 July 2015, Mukhin was arrested in Sevastopol, taken to Moscow and placed in a pre-trial detention centre as part of the case of organising the activities of the banned organisation "Army of the Will of the People". On 19 August, he was transferred under house arrest. On 10 August 2017, Mukhin was sentenced to four years of suspended imprisonment
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
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