Yulia Mirzalieva
Yulia Mirzalieva, Moscow. Charges: Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)); “Yulia Mirzalieva's case of calls to terrorism”. Status: imprisoned. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, March 8, 2026.
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Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Charges
- Article 205.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Public incitement to terrorism or justification of terrorism (using media or the internet)
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, "being sympathetic to the ideas of Ukrainian nationalism based on Russophobia, isolation and exclusivity of the Ukrainian nation, being an opponent of the constitutional system, the current state authorities of the Russian Federation and its foreign policy, protesting against the special military operation, <...> posted in the open access to the Internet in the social network "V Kontakte" <...> a publication containing, according to the conclusions of specialists of the State Budgetary Institution of the Moscow City MRC, a set of psychological and linguistic data, the words "Vengeance has come to the mutt". This is a message with the words "Retribution has caught up with the mutt. Zhenke will also fly soon, will not hide, the dog is slouching. Listeners at Kobzon's concert. Standing ovation."
Latest event
March 8, 2026 — recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, March 8, 2026
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Persecution begins
Yulia Mirzalieva's case of calls to terrorism
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Yulia Mirzalieva's case of calls to terrorism
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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"), Мирзалиева Юлия Николаевна, 1980 г.р.
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A resident of Moscow, lawyer, mother of many children. On 8 October 2025, she was taken into custody in a case on calls to terrorism. Its details are unknown.
"Beware of the news" write that on her pages in "VKontakte" and in "Odnoklassniki" Mirzalieva posted cooking recipes mixed with political posts. In 2024, she rejoiced at the invasion of Kursk Oblast by the AFU and wrote that she "hates Russia". One of the posts contained the following statement: "Nothing makes me as happy as the death of Russians.
Before being detained in the criminal case, Mirzalieva underwent "carousel arrests": she was arrested four times in a row in administrative cases of petty hooliganism (Article 20.1 of the Administrative Code). On 21 August Savelovsky district court arrested her for 15 days, on 5 September Timiryazevsky court imposed another 10 days. The next decision was issued on 15 September, but it was not published and its details are unknown. On 29 September Golovinsky court arrested Mirzalieva for another 10 days.
The decision on the first administrative arrest cited the testimony of the woman. She said that on 19 August police officers burst into her home, demanded to show her equipment and prohibited substances, and then took her to Lubyanka. There she was fingerprinted and genetically analysed. After that, Mirzalieva said, she was taken to an unfamiliar place, where she was told to get into another car. The woman was then taken to the police station, where a report was drawn up on her.
In 2020, the guardianship authorities tried to take three children away from Mirzalieva, who was then living in Kostroma. In the lawsuit to restrict her parental rights and as justification, the officials cited Mirzalieva's lack of a permanent job, her "unpleasant statements" against the state and "formation of negative attitudes in the children towards others and the country as a whole". The court rejected the claim of the guardianship authorities.
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