Sergiy Semenyuk
Sergiy Semenyuk, born 1976, Khabarovsk Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “Jehovah's Witnesses third case in Khabarovsk Krai”. Status: location unknown. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, December 11, 2020; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, April 5, 2020.
In brief
Khabarovsk Krai · Khabarovsk · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Participated in public readings of the Jehovah's Witnesses Bible, a translation of which is deemed an extremist material, at a meeting held in the conference room of a hotel complex in April 2018
Latest event
December 11, 2020 — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 11, 2020
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 5, 2020
Timeline
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Persecution begins
Jehovah's Witnesses third case in Khabarovsk Krai
Criminal case
Jehovah's Witnesses third case in Khabarovsk Krai
Other defendants in the case
- Sergey Svetonosov — Location unknown
Thematic group: The third case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Khabarovsk Krai
Details and sources
Full summary
On 5 August 2019, Semenyuk was charged in absentia with participation in the activities of an extremist organisation. On 13 August, he was arrested in absentia. In October, it became known that Semenyuk was put on an international wanted list.
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.