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Yuri Pichugin

Yuri Pichugin

Tomsk

66 yr old (born in 17.07.1959)

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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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Address: 634510, Россия, Томская область, г. Томск, ул. Пушкина, 48, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Томской области, Пичугин Юрий Иванович, 1959 г.р.

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