Timofey Zhukov
Timofey Zhukov, born 1979, Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut”. Sentence (December 5, 2023): 7 years' suspended sentence. Status: at large. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, January 8, 2020; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, May 30, 2019.
In brief
Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug · Surgut · Lawyers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
7 years
suspended sentence
Upheld February 20, 2025
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
delivered speeches, participated in preaching ministry with local "Jehovah's Witnesses", held meetings with "pioneers", "elders" and "office assistants", including for the purpose of organising the activities of "elders" in the "Vzletnoye" "assembly"
Latest event
February 20, 2025 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, January 8, 2020
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, May 30, 2019
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 7 years
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Persecution begins
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
Criminal case
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Surgut
Other defendants in the case
- Ilkhom Aminjanov — At large
- Vyacheslav Boronos — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Vasiliy Burenescu — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Sergey Volosnikov — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Savely Gargalyk — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Eugeniy Kairyak — At large, 6 years 10 months
- Artem Kim — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Igor Kobotov — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Sergey Loginov — At large, 7 years
- Grigorii Ozhiganov — At large
- Igor Petrov — At large, 6 years 5 months
- Alexey Plekhov — At large, 6 years 3 months
- Pavel Romashov — At large, 6 years 7 months
- Leonid Rysikov — At large, 6 years 9 months
- Artur Severinchik — At large, 6 years 3 months
- Igor Trifonov — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Evgeniy Fedin — At large, 6 years 6 months
- Viktor Fefilov — At large, 6 years 4 months
- Viola Shepel — At large, 3 years 3 months
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug
Details and sources
Full summary
No later than April 2019 it became known that Timofei Zhukov was a suspect in a case of activities of an extremist organization.
On February 5, 2020 Zhukov was detained. Before that the court ruled that Zhukov should undergo a psychiatric examination but Zhukov challenged the ruling so at the time of detention it had not entered into force. Nevertheless, Zhukov remained in a psychiatric hospital in Yekaterinburg until February 19.
On October 19, 2021 Zhukov was awarded compensation of 28 and a half thousand rubles for illegal placement in a psychiatric hospital.
On December 5, 2023 he was sentenced to seven 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.