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Aleksandr Kolesnikov
Biography
A resident of Volgograd. Detained in July 2020 on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation for being involved in the activities of the Islamic movement Tablighi Jamaat. Its adherents are persecuted solely because of their religious activities. On 12 September 2022, given two years of suspended sentence.
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