Liya Maltseva
Liya Maltseva, born 1969, Primorsky Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Lia Maltseva”. Sentence (September 20, 2022): Two years three months' conditional deprivation of liberty, seven months' restriction of liberty. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, April 5, 2021; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, December 11, 2020.
In brief
Primorsky Krai · Partizansk · Cooks · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
2 years 3 months
Two years three months' conditional deprivation of liberty, seven months' restriction of liberty
Upheld June 27, 2023
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
August 31, 2025 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 5, 2021
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, December 11, 2020
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 3 months
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Persecution begins
The case of Lia Maltseva
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
Criminal case
The case of Lia Maltseva
Details and sources
Full summary
On August 18 2020, Maltseva's home was searched, and later it became known that she was a suspect in a case of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation. A recognizance not to leave has been taken. On September 20 2022, she was sentenced to two years and three months conditional sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.