Sergey Titarenko
Sergey Titarenko, born 1968, Krasnodar Krai. Charges: Article 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism); “The case of Sergei Titarenko”. Sentence (September 14, 2015): a fine of 100,000 roubles. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, December 20, 2015; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, March 18, 2015.
In brief
Krasnodar Krai · Krasnodar · Extremism cases
Sentence
a fine of 100,000 roubles
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for extremism
Full wording of the charges
posted on his page on the Vkontakte social network a text of unknown authorship that he had previously discovered on the Internet, the text was containing statements that negatively assessed Putin and called for violent acts against him and for a violent change in the foundations of the constitutional order of the Russian Federation.
Latest event
March 4, 2016 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 20, 2015
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, March 18, 2015
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Persecution ends
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №5 (SIZO-5) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation
· Persecution begins
The case of Sergei Titarenko
Criminal case
The case of Sergei Titarenko
Details and sources
Full summary
On 25 September 2014, he became a suspect in a criminal case on calls for extremist activity and was arrested on 26 September; according to the investigation, he reposted a text on the social network VKontakte that the deputy head of the Dnipropetrovsk administration, Borys Filatov, allegedly offered a reward for Putin's removal. According to activist Darya Polyudova, Titarenko shares a cell with the "thief in law"; when Polyudova was in the pre-trial detention centre, Titarenko's cell was next door to her cell, and every evening she heard shouting from there; according to her, Titarenko asked his superior to move him to another cell, but he did not grant his request. Titarenko was also questioned as part of the Polyudova case, and he gave the testimony required by the investigation; on 26 March 2015, he was released from the pre-trial detention centre on his own recognisance.
On 15 September 2015, he was sentenced to a fine of 100 thousand rubles
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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