Vladimir Vasilyev
Vladimir Vasilyev, born 1956, Kirov Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Financing of extremist activities); “Case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kirov”. Sentence (June 2, 2022): two years six months' suspended sentence, ban on engagement in activities related to leading and working at social and… Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, April 5, 2020.
In brief
Kirov Oblast · Kirov · Pensioners · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
2 years 6 months
two years six months' suspended sentence, ban on engagement in activities related to leading and working at social and religious organisations for two years, one year of restriction of freedom
Upheld October 3, 2022
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
- Article 282.3 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Financing of extremist activities
Full wording of the charges
participated in organising and financing the activities of an extremist organisation; participated in the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
October 3, 2026 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 5, 2020
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 6 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Persecution begins
Case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kirov
Criminal case
Case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kirov
Other defendants in the case
- Vladimir Korobeinikov — At large, 3 years 3 months
- Andrzej Onyszczuk — Not in Russia, 6 years 6 months
- Andrey Suvorkov — At large, 6 years 3 months
- Evgeny Suvorkov — At large, 6 years 3 months
- Maxim Khalturin — At large, 6 years 2 months
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kirov
Details and sources
Full summary
In October 2018, it became known that Vasilyev was a suspect in a criminal case on organisation, participation and financing of an extremist organisation. Later, the charge of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation was dropped. On 3 June 2022, he was sentenced to two and a half years of suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.