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Yuri Pichugin
Retired persons
1959-07-17
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Tomsk
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Biography
A Tomsk resident.
On 30 May 2025, law enforcers came to search at least four residences of Jehovah's Witnesses in Tomsk. As a result, they detained four believers aged 24 to 65: Anton Novopashin, a Kazakh citizen, Gonhi Jahi, a student from Côte d'Ivoire, Andrei Plekhanov and Yuri Pichugin, who had recently suffered a stroke. They are being held as defendants in a case of participation in extremist activities. All of them have been taken in custody.
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