Boris Yagovitov
Boris Yagovitov, born 1972, Khabarovsk Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code (Involvement of a person in the activities of an extremist organization); Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The Boris Yagovitov case”. Sentence (October 9, 2022): five years' suspended sentence. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, July 18, 2021.
In brief
Khabarovsk Krai · village of Solnechny · Manual workers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
5 years
five years' suspended sentence
Upheld December 21, 2022
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code — Involvement of a person in the activities of an extremist organization
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in the activities of an extremist organisation involving new participants
Latest event
December 21, 2025 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, July 18, 2021
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №2 (SIZO-2) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Khabarovsk Krai
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Persecution begins
The Boris Yagovitov case
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
The Boris Yagovitov case
Details and sources
Full summary
On 5 June 2021 he was detained on the street, his home was searched. On 7 June, the court decided to send Yagovitov under house arrest in the case of participation and involvement in the activities of an extremist organisation. On 29 December he was taken into custody at the request of the prosecutor, who stated that Yagovitov "systematically violated the execution of the preventive measure in the form of house arrest". On 24 February 2022, the court returned the case to the prosecutor's office. In June, the case came back to court. On 10 October, he was sentenced to five years suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.