Zakaryan Vardan Pegatosovich

Zakaryan Vardan Pegatosovich, born June 12, 1971, lives in Moscow, tailor. On charges of committing a crime under Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Involvement in the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with membership in a community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, he was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months of imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.

He was detained on November 24, 2020, and was under house arrest since November 27, 2020. He was taken into custody on March 31, 2023.