Alexander Panasenko
- Criminal Code
- Article 354.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
- Verdict
- Ban on activity, Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 4 years 4 months
- Date of verdict
- 2025-04-21
- Region
- Kemerovo Oblast
- City
- Kemerovo
- Facility
- ФКУ СИЗО-2 ГУФСИН России по Кемеровской области
- Address for letters
- 654034, Кемеровская область, г. Новокузнецк, ул. Полосухина, 3, ФКУ СИЗО-2 ГУФСИН России по Кемеровской области, Панасенко Александр Олегович, 1993 г.р.
Case summary
Resident of Kemerovo. In November 2024, it became known that a criminal case had been opened against him for desecrating symbols of military glory in connection with a post in which he promised to defecate on the St. George ribbon. Earlier, Panasenko had been held administratively liable under the article on the display of Nazi symbols and was sentenced to one year of corrective labor in a criminal case for repeated display of such symbols (we do not know the details of that case). He was also twice given suspended sentences under the article on drug possession (we have no grounds to consider those prosecutions politically motivated). On April 21, 2025, he was sentenced to four years and four months in a general-regime penal colony.
Others charged under Article 354.1 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
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