Valentyn Osadchuk
Valentyn Osadchuk, born 1976, Primorsky Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “Case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Vladivostok”. Sentence (May 31, 2022): six years' suspended imprisonment, one year' restriction of freedom. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, September 15, 2018; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, September 15, 2018.
In brief
Primorsky Krai · Vladivostok · Office workers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
6 years
six years' suspended imprisonment, one year' restriction of freedom
Upheld September 25, 2022
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
September 26, 2022 — imprisonment begins
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, September 15, 2018
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, September 15, 2018
Timeline
· Imprisonment begins
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №4 (SIZO-4) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Primorsky Krai
· Persecution begins
Case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Vladivostok
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
Case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Vladivostok
Other defendants in the case
- Nadezhda Anoikina — At large, 2 years
- Lyubov Galaktionova — At large, 2 years
- Naila Kogay — At large, 2 years
- Nina Purge — At large, 2 years
- Raisa Usanova — At large, 2 years
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Vladivostok
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained on 19 April 2018 and arrested on 23 April on charges of organising activities of an extremist organisation. On 18 January 2019 he was transferred to house arrest. The charge was reclassified from organisation to participation in the activities of an extremist organisation. In March, he was released on his own recognizance.
On 12 November, the court returned the case to the prosecutor's office. On 16 December 2020, the court of cassation instance returned the case to the court of first instance. On 1 June 2022, the court of first instance sentenced Osadchuk to six years' suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.