Christina Lyubashenko
Christina Lyubashenko, born 1989, Moscow. Charges: Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization); Article 207.3 part 2 items b, d, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); “Christina Lyubashenko's case of "fakes" about the Russian Armed Forces and participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation”. Sentence (June 17, 2024): 12 years' imprisonment in a general regime colony. Status: imprisoned; place of detention: Penal colony No. 1, Vladimir Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, July 24, 2024.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Homemakers · Terrorism cases
Sentence
12 years
imprisonment in a general regime colony
Upheld November 14, 2024
Charges
- Article 205.5 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of a terrorist organization
- Article 207.3 part 2 items b, d, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries (using an official position, a group of individuals, falsification of evidence, for selfish motives, or out of hatred)
Full wording of the charges
The initial hooliganism case was connected with the launching of white-blue-white balloons, which, according to the investigation, Lyubashenko was offered to carry out for a fee by a man who met her in a refugee camp in Switzerland. The charge of participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation is explained by the fact that the investigation linked the colour of the balloons with the symbols of the Freedom of Russia Legion. Dissemination of knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces, according to the investigation, consisted in the fact that on 8 May 2023 Lyubashenko put speakers on the window of a rented flat in the town of Dolgoprudny near Moscow and loudly played a recording with an anti-war speech and the anthem of Ukraine.
Latest event
November 14, 2024 — appeal
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, July 24, 2024
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 12 years
· Persecution begins
Christina Lyubashenko's case of "fakes" about the Russian Armed Forces and participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation
Criminal case
Christina Lyubashenko's case of "fakes" about the Russian Armed Forces and participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation
- Case number
- 1-108/2024
Thematic group: Celestial Regiment case
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Facility: Penal colony No. 1, Vladimir Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
601395, Владимирская область, Судогодский р- н, посёлок Головино, ул. Советская д. 50-А, ФКУ «ИК № 1 УФСИН по Владимирской области», Любашенко Кристина Андреевна, 1989 г.р.
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Full summary
A citizen of Ukraine, after 24 February 2022, she went to Switzerland with her family and received asylum there. As her lawyer told her, in Switzerland she met a man who introduced himself as Vitaliy Yurchenko and called himself a refugee from Ukraine. He offered her to earn money by travelling to Moscow and launching blue and yellow balloons into the sky. Yurchenko paid for Lyubashenko's one-way ticket and rented a flat in Dolgprudny (Moscow region). When Lyubashenko got there, however, the conditions changed, according to the lawyer: Yurchenko instructed her to launch blue-and-white balloons into the sky and to put speakers with an anti-war speech out of the flat window. The Ukrainian refused, but Yurchenko threatened that he would inform the guardianship authorities about the daughters she had left behind in Switzerland and they would be taken to an orphanage. On 8 May 2023, Lyubashenko was detained. At first, a case of hooliganism was brought against her. Later the charges were toughened: the Ukrainian was charged with participation in the activities of a terrorist organisation and dissemination of deliberately false information about the Armed Forces. On 17 June 2024, Lyubashenko was sentenced to 12 years in a general regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
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