Oksana Shchetkina
Oksana Shchetkina, born 1976, Stavropol Krai. Charges: Article 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an undesirable organization); “Oksana Shchetkina's case of participation in the activities of an "undesirable" organisation”. Sentence (November 27, 2024): 2 years' imprisonment in a general regime colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since November 27, 2024; place of detention: Pre-trial detention centre No. 2, Stavropol Krai. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion, January 13, 2024.
In brief
Stavropol Krai · Pyatigorsk · Office workers
Sentence
2 years
imprisonment in a general regime colony
Upheld April 23, 2025
Charges
- Article 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an undesirable organization
Full wording of the charges
Presumably, the case was initiated on charges of involvement in an organisation associated with the Falun Gong system of spiritual practices.
Latest event
April 24, 2025 — imprisonment begins
Pre-trial Detention Centre №2 (SIZO-2) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Stavropol Krai
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, January 13, 2024
Timeline
· Imprisonment begins
Pre-trial Detention Centre №2 (SIZO-2) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation for the Stavropol Krai
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Recognised as unlawfully deprived of liberty for exercising freedom of religion
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Persecution begins
Oksana Shchetkina's case of participation in the activities of an "undesirable" organisation
Criminal case
Oksana Shchetkina's case of participation in the activities of an "undesirable" organisation
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Facility: Pre-trial detention centre No. 2, Stavropol Krai
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
357500 Ставропольский край, г. Пятигорск, ул. Теплосерная, 123, ФКУ СИЗО-2 УФСИН России по Ставропольскому краю, Щеткина Оксана Анатольевна, 1976 г.р.
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Full summary
A resident of Pyatigorsk. Formerly a representative of the Falun Dafa Centre for Spiritual and Physical Development (another name for Falun Gong, a Chinese system of spiritual practices). No later than March 2024, she was placed under house arrest in the case of participation in the activities of an "undesirable organisation". Later it became known that Shchetkina was accused of organising the activities of an "undesirable organisation".
On 27 November 2024, Shchetkina was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 284.1 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.