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Alexey Berchuk

Alexey Berchuk

Blagoveshchensk

50 yr old (born in 17.11.1975)

Address: ул. Медведево, 1, Медведево, Респ. Марий Эл, 425200, ФКУ «ИК № 3 УФСИН по Республике Марий Эл», Берчук Алексей Александрович, 1975 г.р.

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On 21 January 2019, he was detained at Moscow airport, taken to Blagoveshchensk, and then released on his own recognizance on charges of organising activities for an extremist organisation due to his involvement in the Jehovah's Witnesses community. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely for religious activities: meetings, joint worship services, and attracting new supporters.

On June 30, 2021, he was sentenced to eight years in a general regime penal colony.

You can read more about politically persecuted people in the Telegram channel OVD-Info LIVE and our database of politically motivated criminal prosecutions.

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Address: ул. Медведево, 1, Медведево, Респ. Марий Эл, 425200, ФКУ «ИК № 3 УФСИН по Республике Марий Эл», Берчук Алексей Александрович, 1975 г.р.

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