Tatiana Obizhestvit
Tatiana Obizhestvit, born 1962, Tatarstan. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kazan”. Sentence (February 20, 2023): two years' suspended sentence with a probation period of two years. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 5, 2020.
In brief
Tatarstan · Kazan · Pensioners · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
2 years
two years' suspended sentence with a probation period of two years
Upheld August 12, 2024
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
participated in the activities of an extremist organisation
Latest event
October 31, 2025 — imprisonment ends
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 5, 2020
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Persecution begins
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kazan
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kazan
- Case number
- 1-23/2023 (1-46/2022; 1-280/2021;)
Other defendants in the case
- Andrei Bochkariov — At large, 3 years 1 month
- Leysan Bochkaryova — At large, 2 years 6 months
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kazan
Details and sources
Full summary
Detained on 19 January 2020 after a search, questioned as part of a criminal case on the activities of an extremist organisation. On 21 January, sent under house arrest by court decision. On 20 February 2023, sentenced to two years' suspended sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.