Liliia Dolinina
Liliia Dolinina, born 1946, Khabarovsk Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code (Involvement of a person in the activities of an extremist organization); “Lilia Dolinina's case on involvement in Jehovah's Witnesses activities”. Sentence (February 3, 2025): 4 years 6 months' suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of 2 years, 1 year 2 months' restriction of liberty. Status: deceased. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion.
In brief
Khabarovsk Krai · village of Dormidontovka · Pensioners · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
4 years 6 months
suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of 2 years, 1 year 2 months' restriction of liberty
Upheld May 29, 2025
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code — Involvement of a person in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, she was involving people in the activities of the religious organisation of Jehovah's Witnesses.
Latest event
June 22, 2026 — added to the rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Timeline
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Imprisonment begins
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years 6 months
· Persecution begins
Lilia Dolinina's case on involvement in Jehovah's Witnesses activities
Criminal case
Lilia Dolinina's case on involvement in Jehovah's Witnesses activities
Details and sources
Full summary
Retired. On 13 February 2023 in Dormidontovka (Khabarovsk Krai) her home was searched. According to Dolinina, FSB officers also visited her son's flatmate and seized letters of support that the believer had sent to the woman, sharing biblical principles with her. A case of participation and involvement in the activities of an extremist organisation was brought against Dolinina. Her son's cohabitant argued in court that her testimony during the investigation was fabricated: according to her, Dolinina did not try to involve her in the activities of an extremist organisation. Despite the fact that the expert examination did not come to such a conclusion, the pensioner was sentenced to a four and a half year suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.