Yegorov Yevgeniy

Name: Yegorov Yevgeniy Viktorovich
Date of Birth: February 19, 1991
Current status: who has served the main sentence
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (2)
Sentence: punishment in the form of 2 years 6 months of imprisonment with restriction of liberty 1 year, punishment in the form of imprisonment shall be considered conditional with a probationary period of 2 years

Biography

On May 17, 2018, mass searches were carried out in the apartments of believers, including Yevgeny Yegorov, in Birobidzhan. A criminal case was opened against him on the basis of religion. Despite the absence of victims in the case, in June 2021, the court found Yevgeniy guilty and sentenced him to 2.5 years probation for believing in God.

Yevgeniy was born in Birobidzhan in 1991. After his parents divorced, he and his mother lived with his grandparents, but always maintained good, friendly relations with his father. After graduating from 9 classes, he acquired the specialty of an electrical technician in absentia. He got a job to pay for tuition and has been working as a repairman for many years. He likes to repair computer equipment, he often helps friends and acquaintances with this.

Since childhood, Eugene loved to read, and over time he was fascinated by poetry and writing. He even published a novel and a collection of poems. "Becoming a professional writer is my dream," admits Evgeny. During the search, FSB officers seized all of his unpublished electronic manuscripts.

In 2018, Yevgeniy met his future wife Ksenia, and in September 2019 they got married. The young family had to cancel their honeymoon because of the recognizance not to leave, under which Eugene was a month before the wedding.

In February 2021, Yevgeny's mother, Larisa Artamonova, was sentenced to 2.5 years suspended under the same article as her son - for participating in the activities of a banned organization.

Case History

Yevgeniy Yegorov is an aspiring writer from Birobidzhan who, because of being one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, was accused by the FSB of participating in extremist activities. In May 2018, security forces raided the home where he and his mother lived, and a year later, they initiated a criminal case against him. While under investigation, Yevgeniy got married, but due to a recognizance agreement, he was forced to cancel the honeymoon trip. Also, the young man was included on the Rosfinmonitoring list of terrorists and extremists. The court considered his case for a year and a half and finally gave him a two-and-a-half-year suspended sentence in June 2021. This decision was upheld by the appellate court, but the cassation court returned the case to the regional court, which, in turn, sent the case back to the first instance court. Upon reconsideration, the position of the courts did not change—the suspended sentence of two and a half years entered into force in April 2023 after a second appeal.
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