Andrey Magliv

Name: Magliv Andrey Aleksandrovich

Date of Birth: June 20, 1984

Current status: who has served the main sentence

Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (2)

Time spent in prison: 2 day in a temporary detention facility, 514 day Under house arrest

Sentence: punishment in the form of 2 years of imprisonment, with restriction of liberty for a term of 8 months, punishment in the form of imprisonment shall be considered conditional with a probationary period of 3 years

Biography

Andrey Magliv was born in 1984 in Serdobsk (Penza region). Sole proprietorship. Since childhood he loves to draw, studied at an art school. In 2006 he graduated from the Saratov Agrarian University, where he began to think for the first time about God and the spiritual, about the injustice taking place in the world.

Later he moved to Penza, where he worked as a store administrator, pastry chef, computer repairman and bath restorer. In 2012 he married Natalia. The couple love to spend time cycling and skiing, playing table tennis. Together, they help take care of Natalia's sick mother, who cannot leave the house.

In the summer of 2018, armed masked men broke into the apartment where Andrey was staying with several friends and arrested him on charges of extremist activities. For Andrey's relatives, who know him as a peace-loving person, this was a real shock. Even those who do not share his Christian beliefs do not understand how such a thing can happen in a country with freedom of religion.

Despite the convincing arguments of the defense, on December 13, 2019, the judge of the Leninsky District Court of Penza, Roman Tanchenko, sentenced Andrey Magliv to 2 years of suspended imprisonment. The lawyers appealed to the Judicial Collegium for Criminal Cases of the Penza Regional Court.

Case History

In July 2018, searches were carried out in Penza and criminal cases were initiated against 6 local Jehovah’s Witnesses. It turned out that since the fall of 2017, the believers had been under covert surveillance. Vladimir Alushkin spent six months in a pre-trial detention center. The UN Working Group officially recognized his arrest as arbitrary. In the summer of 2019, the case was submitted to the Leninsky District Court of Penza. During the hearings, it turned out that the protocols of the witnesses’ interrogations were partially falsified by the investigation, and one of the witnesses told the court that she had testified under pressure. In December 2019, Judge Roman Tanchenko sentenced Vladimir Alushkin to 6 years in prison, and Tatyana Alushkina, Galia Olkhova, Vladimir Kulyasov, Andrey Magliv and Denis Timoshin to 2 years suspended. In September 2020, the Penza Regional Court commuted the sentence of Vladimir Alushkin, replacing 6 years in prison with 4 years probation. For the rest, the court upheld the sentence - 2 years suspended. On December 9, 2021, the First Court of Cassation of General Jurisdiction upheld the verdict.

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