Evgeniia Samokhina
Evgeniia Samokhina, born 1977, Moscow Oblast. Charges: Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); “Evgeniia Samokhina's case of fakes about the RF Armed Forces”. Sentence (April 17, 2025): 6 years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since June 11, 2024; place of detention: Penal colony No. 5, Moscow Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, August 8, 2024.
In brief
Moscow Oblast · Pushkino · Entrepreneurs · Anti-war cases
Sentence
6 years
imprisonment in a general regime penal colony
Upheld May 20, 2026
Charges
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries (based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or on grounds of hatred or enmity in relation to any social group)
Full wording of the charges
The reason for the criminal case were publications "about the shelling of Ukraine by the Russian army". Allegedly, the woman "reacted emotionally to news about civilian casualties". At the same time, the Telegram channel notes, Samokhina's page in November 2023 was blocked by the prosecutor's office. Since then, she has not published any new entries.
Latest event
May 20, 2026 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, August 8, 2024
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 6 years
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
Evgeniia Samokhina's case of fakes about the RF Armed Forces
Criminal case
Evgeniia Samokhina's case of fakes about the RF Armed Forces
- Case number
- 1-151/2025
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 5, Moscow Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
143202 Московская область, Можайский р-н, п. им. Дзержинского, д.1, ФКУ «ИК № 5 УФСИН по Московской области», Самохина Евгения Сергеевна, 1977 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Pushkino (Moscow region). Allegedly, in October 2022, she was fined 42 thousand rubles (US$534) in Moscow under the article on discrediting the Russian army (part 1 of article 20.3.3.3 of the Administrative Code) because on 1 October 2022 she was travelling in a car with blue and yellow ribbons and the inscription "No to War" on the rear window. In June 2024, it became known that she was detained in a criminal case for spreading deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces. Samokhina was taken into custody. On 17 April 2025, she was sentenced to six years in a general regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
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