Alexander Serebryakov
Alexander Serebryakov, born 1977, Moscow. Charges: Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Financing of extremist activities); “Alexander Serebryakov case on financing extremist activities”. Sentence (December 13, 2024): 5 years' deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony; previously convicted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code. Status: imprisoned; place of detention: Penal colony No. 7, Kostroma Oblast. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, August 11, 2021.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Manual workers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
5 years
deprivation of liberty in a general regime colony
Upheld February 10, 2026
Other verdicts
- August 7, 2022 — six years six months' suspended imprisonment
Charges
- Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Financing of extremist activities
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Latest event
February 10, 2026 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, August 11, 2021
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Persecution ends
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years 6 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Persecution begins
Alexander Serebryakov case on financing extremist activities
· Criminal case opened
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Moscow
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Moscow
Other defendants in the case
- Yuri Temirbulatov — At large, 6 years 6 months
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Moscow
Alexander Serebryakov case on financing extremist activities
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 7, Kostroma Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
156522, поселок Бычиха 12, Костромская область, Костромской р-н, ФКУ «ИК № 7 УФСИН России по Костромской области», Серебряков Александр Георгиевич, 1977 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Moscow. Detained on 10 February 2021, taken into custody on 12 February on charges of organising activities of an extremist organisation in connection with involvement in the Jehovah's Witnesses community. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely for religious activities: meetings, joint worship services, attracting new supporters. 8 August 2022 sentenced to six and a half years suspended sentence, released in the courtroom. On 20 September 2023, Serebryakov was taken into custody on a new case - on financing extremist activity, also in connection with involvement in the community of Jehovah's Witnesses. On 13 December 2024, he was sentenced to five years in a general regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.