Natalia Sharina
Natalia Sharina, born 1957, Moscow. Charges: Article 160 part 3, Russian Criminal Code (Theft of someone else's property using official position or on a large scale); “Natalia Sharina's embezzlement case”, opened on March 31, 2016. Sentence (June 1, 2017): 4 years' suspended sentence; previously convicted under Article 282 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code; Article 282 part 2 item b, Russian Criminal Code. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, November 2, 2016; Amnesty International — recognised as a prisoner of conscience, November 18, 2015.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Office workers · Extremism cases
Sentence
4 years
suspended sentence
Upheld April 24, 2018
Other verdicts
- June 4, 2017 — 4 years' suspended sentence with a probationary period of 4 years
- June 4, 2017 — 4 years' suspended sentence with a probationary period of 4 years
Charges
- Article 160 part 3, Russian Criminal Code — Theft of someone else's property using official position or on a large scale
- Article 282 (part unknown), Russian Criminal Code
- Article 282 part 2 item b, Russian Criminal Code
Full wording of the charges
Spent money allocated for library lawyers on her defence during the first case on the incitement of national hate.
Latest event
October 25, 2022 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, November 2, 2016
- Recognised as a prisoner of conscience — Amnesty International, November 18, 2015
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, November 15, 2015
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, November 11, 2015
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· Persecution ends
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 4 years
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Criminal case opened
Natalia Sharina's embezzlement case
· Recognised as a prisoner of conscience
Amnesty International
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Criminal case opened
Second case of the Library of Ukrainian Literature
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
The case of the Library of Ukrainian Literature
Criminal case
The case of the Library of Ukrainian Literature
Second case of the Library of Ukrainian Literature
Natalia Sharina's embezzlement case
Details and sources
Full summary
On December 21, 2010, a search was conducted at the Library of Ukrainian Literature as part of a criminal case related to incitement to national hatred, as a number of books with an "anti-Russian orientation" were discovered there. On August 2, 2011, Nataliya Sharina, the director of the library, was implicated as a defendant in the case. In 2013, the charges against Sharina were dropped.
On October 28, 2015, the Library of Ukrainian Literature was searched once again, and a case involving incitement to national hatred was initiated against Sharina, based on a book found on the Federal List of Extremist Materials. Sharina and other library staff assert that the book was planted. Sharina was detained for 24 hours without food, sleep, or medical attention and was subsequently placed under house arrest.
In late March 2016, it was disclosed that another case had been filed against Sharina, this time on charges of embezzlement. According to investigators, she had used the funds allocated for the library's legal defense in the previous criminal case. On June 1, 2017, she was sentenced to four years of suspended imprisonment.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 3
Other people prosecuted under Article 160 part 3, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.