Anastasia Ponkina
Anastasia Ponkina, born 2000, Udmurtia. Charges: Article 213 part 1 item b, Russian Criminal Code; “The case of 23 January in Izhevsk”. Sentence (October 9, 2022): two years' suspended sentence. Status: at large.
In brief
Udmurtia · Izhevsk · Office workers · Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
2 years
two years' suspended sentence
Upheld December 21, 2022
Charges
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, she "posted appeals to an indefinite number of people on the Internet" calling for the participation in the rally on 23 January 2021, including her contact details in the posts, "taking active actions to protest against the current political authorities of the Udmurt Republic and the Russian Federation", "knowing with certainty that her actions were unlawful", as the rally was unauthorised; she went to the square and addressed the people gathered with appeals: "Let's go out into the street and show our power! Come here, let's show our power! Stretch the banner", "Let's show who is the authority here!", as well as "Let's block the road, the roadway!".
Latest event
December 21, 2024 — imprisonment ends
Timeline
· Imprisonment ends
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Persecution begins
The case of 23 January in Izhevsk
Criminal case
The case of 23 January in Izhevsk
Thematic group: Palace case
Details and sources
Full summary
Participant of the Russian Socialist Movement. She was at the rally in support of Navalny on 23 January 2021 as a journalist. Despite this, immediately after the rally she was detained, taken to the police station and denied lawyer's presence for an hour and a half. The young woman spent the night in the police department. The next day, the court sentenced her to 60 hours of compulsory labour for participation in an unauthorised rally, which interfered with the movement of traffic and pedestrians (part 6.1 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences).
In early March, the administrative case was dismissed due to the initiation of a criminal case about hooliganism. Two weeks later, Ponkina's flat was searched. Her laptop and flash drives were seized. A search was also conducted in the local headquarters of the RSM. In addition, Ponkina and other activists of the movement were questioned as part of an investigation into the possible organisation of an extremist community (Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code). Anastasia herself connects it with the protests against deforestation on 40 Let Pobedy Street.
On 10 October 2022, Ponkina was sentenced to two years' suspended prison sentence.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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