Natalia Doroshchenko
- Criminal Code
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war casesTerrorism cases
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 5 years 4 months
- Date of verdict
- 2025-06-27
- Region
- Irkutsk Oblast
- City
- Irkutsk
- Facility
- ФКУ ИК № 11 ГУФСИН России по Иркутской области
- Address for letters
- 669511, п. Бозой, Иркутская область, Эхирит-Булагатский р-н, ФКУ ИК № 11 ГУФСИН России по Иркутской области, Дорощенко Наталья Викторовна, 1975 г.р.
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, 7 May 2026
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Case summary
A resident of Irkutsk, an accountant. On 27 June 2025, she was sentenced to five years and five months in a general regime colony for justifying terrorism because of comments about the war in Ukraine. On 1 November 2025, the appeal court reduced the sentence by one month.
According to Doroshchenko's friend, employees of Centre E "collected sentences like 'I am against war' or 'they [Ukrainians] defend their Motherland' and similar phrases from her posts and put together a criminal case."
Doroshchenko's father was an Interior Ministry general and for a time headed the Ust-Kut police. He left the Interior Ministry in 2005.
Others charged under Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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