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Sergey Lukashevsky

who

Human rights defenders

birthday

1975-11-15

current location

Не в России

region

Nizhny Novgorod

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Biography

Former director of the Sakharov Centre. Left Russia after the outbreak of war. A case was brought against him for spreading deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces. On 18 November 2024 Lukashevsky was sentenced in absentia to eight years in prison.

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