Marina Janjgava
- Criminal Code
- Article 275, Russian Criminal Code
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 12 years
- Date of verdict
- 2013-10-31
- Region
- Krasnodar Krai
- City
- Sochi
- Address for letters
- 111020, г. Москва, Лефортовский вал, д. 5, ФКУ СИЗО-2 ГУФСИН России по г. Москве ("Лефортово"), Джанджгава Марина Нодаровна, 1958 г.р.
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 31 May 2017
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Case summary
She arrested on 3 October 2012. She signed a confession because the investigator and the appointed lawyer convinced her that the mere fact of sending SMS to a citizen of another country was already treason. On 1 November 2013, she was sentenced to twelve years in a general regime colony; on 27 February 2014, the sentence was upheld. In April 2017, she was transferred to Moscow for a review of the case. On 29 July 2017, pardoned, released on 8 August
Others charged under Article 275, Russian Criminal Code
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