Human rights defender from Perm Alexander Chernyshov received a suspended sentence
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Former member of the board of the Perm “Center of Historical Memory” (successor of “Memorial”) Alexander Chernyshov was found guilty of attempting to smuggle the organization’s archives to Europe. The court sentenced Chernyshov to three years of conditional imprisonment with a three-year probationary period. The human rights defender was released in the courtroom on a recognizance not to leave. This is reported by Properm.ru.
The state prosecution asked for three years of real imprisonment for Chernyshov. Earlier it was reported that Chernyshov fully admitted his guilt.
According to the court’s decision, the organization’s archives must be transferred to the Russian State Archives of Social and Political History.
According to the investigation, Alexander Chernyshov and the former head of the “Memorial” department in the region, Robert Latypov, tried to take archival documents of cultural and historical value to Germany.
Chernyshov was removed from the flight to Istanbul and detained on May 5 at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport. Initially, the court sent him under administrative arrest for 15 days for hooliganism. On the day when this term expired, he was detained again and transferred to Perm. On May 21, he was charged with a criminal case and sent to a pre-trial detention center.
Employees of Perm “Memorial” were searched. Former head of the Human Rights Foundation in Perm, Robert Latypov was declared an international wanted person. In the summer of 2023, he was entered into the register of “foreign agents”.
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