Gennady Deryagin
Teachers
1958-07-26
Imprisoned
Moscow,
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Founder of criminal sexology, former lecturer at the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Northern State Medical University. In October 2023, he was sentenced to ten years in a strict regime penal colony in a case of sexualised violence against a minor. No later than November 2023, a case was initiated against him for discrediting the Russian Armed Forces. On 8 November 2024, he was sentenced to three years in this case. Taking into account the previous sentence, the total term was 12 years in a strict regime penal colony.
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