Yunona Ilyasova
Yunona Ilyasova, born 1985, Murmansk Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “Jehovah's Witnesses' case in Snezhnogorsk”. Sentence (May 15, 2023): a fine of 400 thousand roubles. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, August 11, 2021.
In brief
Murmansk Oblast · Snezhnogorsk · Teachers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
a fine of 400 thousand roubles
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
Seeking technical means and devices connected to the Internet, organised personal delivery of sermons, discussion of religious literature and its texts
Latest event
May 15, 2023 — first-instance verdict
The court delivered a guilty verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, August 11, 2021
Timeline
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
· Persecution begins
Jehovah's Witnesses' case in Snezhnogorsk
Criminal case
Jehovah's Witnesses' case in Snezhnogorsk
Other defendants in the case
- Alexei Eliseev — At large
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Snezhnogorsk
Details and sources
Full summary
Resident of Murmansk region. Detained on 21 July 2021 after a search, questioned as part of a case on organising activities of an extremist organisation in connection with involvement in the activities of the Jehovah's Witnesses community. On 22 July she signed a recognisance not to abscond. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely because of their religious activities - holding meetings and worship services and attracting new supporters. On 15 May 2023 Ilyasova was sentenced to a fine of 400 thousand rubles.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.