Valery Rabota
Valery Rabota, born 1961, Khabarovsk Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The Case of Valery Rabota”. Sentence (September 17, 2024): commutation of the suspended sentence by one year, from six to five years. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, June 28, 2022.
In brief
Khabarovsk Krai · village of Knyaze-Volkonskoye · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
5 years
commutation of the suspended sentence by one year, from six to five years
First instance, July 10, 2024: 6 years
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Rabota is involved in organising the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
November 20, 2024 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, June 28, 2022
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Appeal ruling
sentence changed · 5 years
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Preventive measure: ban on certain activities
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for Khabarovsk Territory
· Persecution begins
The Case of Valery Rabota
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
The Case of Valery Rabota
Details and sources
Full summary
3 March 2022 Rabota was detained after a search, on 5 March the court decided to take him into custody. On 29 June he was placed under house arrest, and on 28 July a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions was chosen. On 7 December 2023, the judge hearing Rabota's case recused herself. She explained that she had previously heard a similar criminal case against Lyubov Ovchinnikova and Lyubov Kocherova. Both cases involve the same witnesses, and she had already evaluated their testimony. On 10 July 2024 Rabota was sentenced to six years' suspended sentence. On 17 September, the court reduced Rabota's sentence from six to five years' suspended sentence
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.