Anastasia Polyakova
Anastasia Polyakova, born 1984, Omsk Oblast. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in the activities of an extremist organization); Article 282.3 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code (Financing extremist activities); “The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Omsk”. Sentence (November 29, 2020): two years six months' suspended imprisonment. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, January 8, 2020; Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion, January 8, 2020.
In brief
Omsk Oblast · Omsk · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
2 years 6 months
two years six months' suspended imprisonment
Upheld January 9, 2023
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
- Article 282.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in the activities of an extremist organization
- Article 282.3 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code — Financing extremist activities
Full wording of the charges
In May 2018, she came to Azovsky German National Municipal District, Omsk Region, where she began to conduct "propaganda activities to attract local residents to participate in the activities of the Jehovah's Witnesses organisation"
Latest event
January 9, 2023 — court ruling
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial Human Rights Centre, January 8, 2020
- Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, January 8, 2020
Timeline
· Court ruling
upheld
· Persecution ends
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 6 months
· Recognised as persecuted for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Omsk Oblast
· Persecution begins
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Omsk
Criminal case
The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Omsk
Other defendants in the case
- Gaukhar Bektimirova — At large, 2 years 3 months
- Dinara Dyusekeeva — At large, 2 years
- Sergey Polyakov — At large, 3 years
Thematic group: The case of Jehovah's Witnesses in Omsk
Details and sources
Full summary
On 4 July 2018, Polyakova and her husband were searched at home and detained. On 6 July, she was arrested on charges of participation in the activities of an extremist organisation. In December, she was transferred under house arrest. Later released after signing an acknowledgement of travel restrictions.
On 30 November 2020, she was sentenced to two and a half 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.