Gulchehra Reshetnikova
Gulchehra Reshetnikova, born 1971, Saratov Oblast. Charges: Article 208 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Creation of an armed group not controlled by the Russian Federation); “Gulchehra Reshetnikova case on financing IS”. Sentence (October 10, 2021): 10 years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since October 11, 2021; place of detention: Penal colony No. 5, Saratov Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, August 11, 2023.
In brief
Saratov Oblast · Saratov · Entrepreneurs
Sentence
10 years
imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
Upheld October 31, 2022
Charges
- Article 208 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Creation of an armed group not controlled by the Russian Federation
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, she transferred 52,128 rubles to Uzbek citizen Saidkamolkhon Khonhujaev, which were received by "a person who presented documents in the name of Khonhujaev Saidkamolkhon" in Istanbul, "and subsequently transferred to members of an illegal armed group."
Latest event
August 11, 2023 — recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, August 11, 2023
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 10 years
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Persecution begins
Gulchehra Reshetnikova case on financing IS
Criminal case
Gulchehra Reshetnikova case on financing IS
- Case number
- 1-393/2021
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 5, Saratov Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
412900, Саратовская область, г. Вольск, пос. Видим д. 12, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН России по Саратовской области», Решетникова Гулчехра Амонжоновна, 1971 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Saratov resident. Reshetnikova's mother, Tatyana Boltaeva, a resident of Ukraine and a Russian citizen, according to the FSB, went to Syria in December 2015 and joined the "Uzbek Jamaat", which participated in the fighting against Bashar al-Assad's army as part of the terrorist organisation "Islamic State". Reshetnikova received her pension by proxy in June 2018 and transferred part of the money for her to the name of an intermediary, an Uzbek citizen. In August 2018, FSB officers turned up at Reshetnikova's home. According to her daughter, they came to Reshetnikova's house with interrogations two or three times in total, each time taking away her and her relatives' phones for six months. In October 2019, Reshetnikova's family sent a complaint to the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, over the fact that Reshetnikova was accused of facilitating terrorist activity. In April 2020, they received an official response to the complaint from local military investigators. In June 2020, Reshetnikova was detained and placed under house arrest.
In May 2021, the charge was reclassified to financing an armed formation.
On 11 October 2021, Reshetnikova was sentenced to ten years in a general regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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