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Fail Shangareev

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Fail Shangareev, born 1960, Orenburg Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “Olga Sandu and Fail Shangareev's case”. 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 unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 5, 2020.

In brief

Orenburg Oblast · Orenburg · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses

Sentence

No information about a verdict.

Charges

Full wording of the charges

Participated in the activities of an extremist organisation

Latest event

December 11, 2020 — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion

Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion

    Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners

  2. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Memorial Human Rights Centre

  3. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  4. · Persecution begins

    Olga Sandu and Fail Shangareev's case

  5. · Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)

Criminal case

Olga Sandu and Fail Shangareev's case

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Orenburg

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

On 16 May 2018, Shangareev's home was searched in a case concerning the activities of an extremist organisation. A recognizance not to leave was signed. Shangareev left Russia.

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