Anastasia Rybachenko
- Criminal Code
- Article 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as persecuted on political groundsby Memorial Human Rights Centre, 10 July 2012
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Case summary
Activist of the Solidarity Movement (at the time of the rally). In May 2012, after the events at Bolotnaya Square, she was subjected to administrative arrest, then immediately left Russia. In July 2012, her parents' flat was searched; in September 2012, she was put on a federal wanted list; in December 2012, Rybachenko was charged in absentia and ordered to sign a recognisance not to leave; in October 2013, she was arrested in absentia by a court. She was amnestied in January 2014. She received political asylum in Estonia.
Others charged under Article 212 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
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Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database
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