Iurii Zaitsev
Iurii Zaitsev, born 1968, Moscow. Charges: Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)); Article 282 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement of hatred or enmity with the use of violence or the threat of violence); “Iurii Zaitsev's case of calls to extremism and incitement to hatred”. Sentence (March 13, 2023): 6 years' imprisonment. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since October 12, 2023; place of detention: Penal colony No. 3, Tambov Oblast.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Extremism cases, Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
6 years
imprisonment
Upheld October 12, 2023
Charges
- Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public calls for extremism (using mass media or the internet)
- Article 282 part 2 item a, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement of hatred or enmity with the use of violence or the threat of violence
Full wording of the charges
The reason for the prosecution was a comment on a video showing a Rosgvardiya officer kicking a woman in the stomach during the dispersal of a rally in support of Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg on 23 January 2021.
Latest event
October 12, 2023 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Criminal case
Iurii Zaitsev's case of calls to extremism and incitement to hatred
Thematic group: Palace case
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Facility: Penal colony No. 3, Tambov Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
393265, Тамбовская область, Рассказовский район, п. Зеленый, ул. Центральная, д.6, ФКУ «ИК № 3 УФСИН России по Тамбовской области», Зайцев Юрий Юрьевич, 1968 г.р.
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Full summary
A resident of Moscow. Two cases were brought against him, both under articles on incitement to hatred and calls to extremism. According to Dmitrii Ivanov, who was convicted to the same colony with a case of public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, one of these cases was initiated in connection with Zaitsev's statements about a law enforcement officer who kicked an elderly woman in the stomach during the dispersal of a rally in support of Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg on 23 January 2021. The sentence in one of the cases was handed down on 6 May 2022, in the other — on 13 March 2023. As a result, Zaitsev was sentenced to six years in a general regime penal colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 280 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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