Andrey Shasherin
- Criminal Code
- Article 148 (part unknown), Russian Criminal CodeArticle 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism cases
- Region
- Altai Krai
- City
- Barnaul
Case summary
On 5 March 2018, police searched the apartment of Shasherin and his parents. Shasherin was taken in handcuffs to the Centre for Countering Extremism, where he was forced to write a confession about the publication of images directed against groups of persons on the basis of nationality and religion. Shasherin later retracted his confession. On 10 January 2019, the case was dismissed due to the absence of corpus delicti.
Others charged under Article 148 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
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