Vadim Tyumentsev
- Criminal Code
- Article 280 part 1, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 282 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Extremism cases
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 5 years
- Date of verdict
- 2015-12-29
- Region
- Tomsk Oblast
- City
- Tomsk
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 29 December 2015
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Case summary
On 16 February 2015, he was searched; a criminal case was initiated on calls to extremism and incitement to ethnic hatred; he wrote a confession of guilt, explaining that he had done so under threat of detention; he was under a personal recognizance, and on 28 April 2015 he was taken into custody (investigators suspected that he had left the territory of Russia); he was placed in a punishment cell twice - for 10 and 15 days: due to "non-performance of labour duties" and because during the first term in the punishment cell he refused to wear punishment cell uniform because it was too cold in it; during the court arguments, the prosecutor requested four years in a penal colony, he was sentenced to five years in a general regime colony.
On 16 January 2019, Tyumentsev was released due to the partial decriminalisation of Article 282 of the Criminal Code.
Others charged under Article 280 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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