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Liliana Korol

ImprisonedChecked October 18, 2026

Liliana Korol, born 1978, Moscow. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1.1, Russian Criminal Code (Involvement of a person in the activities of an extremist organization); Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The fifth case of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Moscow”. Status: imprisoned. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, December 10, 2024.

In brief

Moscow · Moscow · Lawyers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses

Sentence

No information about a verdict.

Preventive measure: house arrest since October 2, 2025

Charges

Latest event

October 2, 2025 — preventive measure: house arrest

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Preventive measure: house arrest

  2. · Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”

  3. · Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion

    Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners

  4. · Persecution begins

    The fifth case of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Moscow

  5. · Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility

Criminal case

The fifth case of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Moscow

Case number
01-0094/2026

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Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)

109383, г. Москва, ул. Шоссейная, д. 92, ФКУ СИЗО-6 ГУФСИН России по г. Москве ("Печатники"), Король Лилиана Сергеевна, 1978 г.р.

Address checked October 18, 2026

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

A resident of Moscow and the Moscow region. On 5 December 2024, a search was conducted at her home. She was then detained and placed in custody as part of a criminal case on the activities of an extremist organisation in connection with her involvement with the Jehovah's Witnesses community. 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 2 October 2025, Korol was transferred to house arrest. As it turned out in court, the key witness in the case testified at the investigation under a false name - under a passport issued to her by the FSB officers so that she could participate in operational-search activities.

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