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Aram Danielyan
Office workers
1990-10-21
В заключении
Samara
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Biography
Aram Danielyan was detained at Samara airport on 10 January 2022 and sent to a pre-trial detention centre the next day on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation due to his involvement with the Jehovah's Witnesses community. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely for religious activities: meetings, joint worship services, attracting new supporters. His case was merged into one proceeding with the case of Polosenko, Kuzyanin and Vasiliev.
In December 2022, he was transferred from custody under a ban on certain actions. In April 2023, the case went to trial.
On 25 January 2024, Danielyan
Aram Danielyan was detained at Samara airport on 10 January 2022 and sent to a pre-trial detention centre the next day on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation due to his involvement with the Jehovah's Witnesses community. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely for religious activities: meetings, joint worship services, attracting new supporters. His case was merged into one proceeding with the case of Polosenko, Kuzyanin and Vasiliev.
In December 2022, he was transferred from custody under a ban on certain actions. In April 2023, the case went to trial.
On 25 January 2024, Danielyan was sentenced to seven years in a general regime colony.
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