Eugenia Shelkovnikova
Eugenia Shelkovnikova, born 1990, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Charges: Article 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Use of non-dangerous violence against a government official); “The case of Evgenia Shelkovnikova on the use of violence against a government”. Sentence (June 10, 2024): 3 years of forced labour. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, January 10, 2025.
In brief
Krasnoyarsk Krai · Krasnoyarsk · Journalists
Sentence
3 years of forced labour
Upheld October 17, 2024
Charges
- Article 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Use of non-dangerous violence against a government official
Full wording of the charges
According to the version of the investigation, she hit the Military Commissar of Sovetsky and Centralny District of Krasnoyarsk Viktor Nechiporenko with a microphone in the temple and struck a blow with her hand on his arm.
Latest event
January 10, 2025 — recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, January 10, 2025
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
Criminal case
The case of Evgenia Shelkovnikova on the use of violence against a government
Details and sources
Full summary
Journalist of the Krasnoyarsk media NGS24.Ru. On the first day after the announcement of mobilisation, 22 September 2022, Shelkovnikova went to the military recruiting office for Sovetsky and Tsentralny districts to geе comments from the people who came there. Viktor Nechiporenko, the military commander, came out of the building and tried to obstruct work of the journalists. He demanded that Shelkovnikova go with him. According to her, he started grabbing her hands "and dragged her to the closed part of tthe military recruiting office [...] he started hitting my hands in a boorish manner, hit me several times and knocked my phone out of my hands, then he called for help from the staff. The crowding started, I was left surrounded by these men. [...] My cameraman on the street recorded how they tried to drag me back into the building.
After that, Shelkovnikova was found to have bruises, but Nechiporenko filed a complaint against her for violence against him: he claimed that he had received an abrasion on his temple, but did not knock the phone out of Shelkovnikova's hands. His people confirmed this version, but one of the visitors to the commissariat confirmed Shelkovnikova's version.
On 11 June 2024, Shelkovnikova was sentenced to three years of forced labour. The journalist notes that the court ruling stated that she was on the territory as a private person and not on editorial assignment.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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