Viktor Stashevsky
Viktor Stashevsky, born 1966, Occupied territory of Sevastopol. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Viktor Stashevsky”. Sentence (March 28, 2021): Six years six months' imprisonment in a general regime colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since March 29, 2021; place of detention: Prison No. 2, Vladimir Oblast. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, March 30, 2021; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, January 8, 2020.
In brief
Occupied territory of Sevastopol · Sevastopol · Sailors · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
6 years 6 months
Six years six months' imprisonment in a general regime colony
Upheld August 9, 2021
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
He participated in organising the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
August 9, 2021 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, March 30, 2021
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, January 8, 2020
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Crimea and the city of Sevastopol
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years 6 months
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
The case of Viktor Stashevsky
Criminal case
The case of Viktor Stashevsky
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Facility: Prison No. 2, Vladimir Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
600020, ул. Большая Нижегородская д. 67, Владимирская область, г. Владимир, ФКУ «Тюрьма № 2 УФСИН по Владимирской области» «Владимирский централ», Сташевский Виктор Владимирович, 1966 г.р.
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Full summary
Resident of Sevastopol. On 4 June 2019, he was detained and the next day released on his own recognisance on suspicion of organising activities of an extremist organisation due to his 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. On 29 March 2021, he was sentenced to six and a half years in a general regime colony, taken into custody in the courtroom. In December 2021, Stashevsky was placed in a high-security barracks in the colony due to the lack of a tag on his jumper. In the same month, he was assigned six months of detention in a single cell-type facility (SCF). After that, he was transferred to another colony without his belongings, so Stashevsky was forced to go for walks in slippers in the December cold. In June 2022, Stashevsky was returned to the colony where he had been before. In September it became known that he was transferred to strict detention conditions (SUS). In January 2023, he was sent to a cell-type facility (CCF). In September 2023, it was reported that Stashevsky was again transferred to SUS. In October - that he was again sent to the EPCT. On 2 May 2024, the court decided to toughen the conditions of Stashevsky's sentence by sending him to prison.
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