Vasily Oleynik
Vasily Oleynik, born 1977, Primorsky Krai. Charges: Article 280 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism); “Vasily Oleynik's case”. Sentence (June 16, 2021): 2 years' deprivation of liberty in a penal colony. Status: at large.
In brief
Primorsky Krai · village of Novopokrovka · Extremism cases, Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
2 years
deprivation of liberty in a penal colony
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 280 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for extremism
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, he posted a video on TikTok calling citizens to violent actions against law enforcement officers and members of their families.
Latest event
January 1, 2022 — imprisonment ends
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Persecution begins
Vasily Oleynik's case
Criminal case
Vasily Oleynik's case
Thematic group: Palace case
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Novopokrovka village, previously convicted 3 times for intentional harm to health, battery and destruction of other people's property. He was detained on charges of calling for extremism because of an aggressive video in TikTok in connection with the protests in support of Navalny on 23 January 2021. In June 2021, he was sentenced to two years in a penal colony. On 30 December, Oleinik was placed in a punitive isolation cell for 14 days, after which the colony administration declared him a persistent offender. In 2022, he was transferred to a general regime colony. In the same year, presumably, he was released.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 280 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.