Ekaterina Pegasheva
Ekaterina Pegasheva, born 1989, Mari El. Charges: Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); “The case of Ekaterina Pegasheva”. Sentence (May 31, 2021): six years six months' suspended sentence. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, April 5, 2020.
In brief
Mari El · Yoshkar-Ola · Homemakers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
6 years 6 months
six years six months' suspended sentence
Upheld August 4, 2021
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
September 2, 2026 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, April 5, 2020
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years 6 months
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
The case of Ekaterina Pegasheva
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Republic of Mari El
Criminal case
The case of Ekaterina Pegasheva
Details and sources
Full summary
On 3 October 2019, the house where Pegasheva lived with her mother was searched as part of the participation in the activities of an extremist organisation case. The court ordered to take Pegasheva into custody. In January 2020, she was transferred to house arrest. On 1 June 2021, she was sentenced to six and a half years of suspended 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.