Igor Stenin
Igor Stenin, born 1965, Astrakhan Oblast. Charges: Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)); “The case of Igor Stenin”. Sentence (May 15, 2016): two years' imprisonment in a penal colony. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted on political grounds, June 8, 2016.
In brief
Astrakhan Oblast · Astrakhan · Extremism cases
Sentence
2 years
two years' imprisonment in a penal colony
Upheld December 20, 2017
Charges
- Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
Posted on the social network under the pseudonym "Ingvar Stefan" post about the war on the Ukraine territory and another user's comment.
Latest event
December 20, 2017 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted on political grounds — Memorial Human Rights Centre, June 8, 2016
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as persecuted on political grounds
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of Igor Stenin
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
Criminal case
The case of Igor Stenin
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained by the FSB on 22 January 2015, on the same day his flat was searched, he was charged with calls to extremism, after which he was released on his own recognizance; he is accused of publishing under the pseudonym "Ingvar Stefan" a social media post on the topic of the war in Ukraine, as well as a comment by another user, which the investigation mistook for a repost. On 16 May, he was sentenced to two years in a penal colony.
In November 2016, Stenin's sentence was toughened and he was transferred to a penal colony.
On 2 June 2017, Stenin was released after the verdict was cancelled and the case was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti.
On 9 November, the Supreme Court, having considered the complaint of the Prosecutor General's Office, returned Stenin's case to the appeal instance. On 21 December, the verdict was again declared lawful.
On 17 February 2018, it became known that Stenin left Russia.
On 21 October 2015, Stenin was fined one thousand rubles for posting a video clip "Orange Sun 14/88" in the social network "VKontakte" in 2012
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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