Natalia Tyshkevich
Natalia Tyshkevich, born 1994, Moscow. Charges: Article 151.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Involvement or public incitement of two or more minors to commit unlawful acts endangering their…); “DOXA editors' case of involving minors in activities dangerous to their lives”. Sentence (April 12, 2022): 2 years of community service and a ban on website administration for 3 years. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, May 10, 2021.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Journalists · Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
2 years of community service and a ban on website administration for 3 years
Upheld February 21, 2023
Charges
- Article 151.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Involvement or public incitement of two or more minors to commit unlawful acts endangering their lives.
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, she participated in recording and distribution of videos "in order to increase the audience" of the protest. According to the investigator, "the actions of Volkov and his supporters Aramyan, Tyshkevich, Gutnikova and Metelkin resulted in uncoordinated public events, which led to the detention and administrative prosecution of more than 100 minors". In addition, "in a difficult epidemiological situation, the actions of the defendants created a real threat of coronavirus infection of an unlimited number of people".
Latest event
February 21, 2023 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, May 10, 2021
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Persecution begins
DOXA editors' case of involving minors in activities dangerous to their lives
· Preventive measure: ban on certain activities
Criminal case
DOXA editors' case of involving minors in activities dangerous to their lives
- Case number
- 01-0001/208/2022 (01-0035/208/2021)
Other defendants in the case
- Armen Aramyan — Not in Russia
- Alla Gutnikova — Location unknown, 2 months
- Vladimir Metelkin — Not in Russia
Thematic group: Palace case
Details and sources
Full summary
Editor of the DOXA student magazine.
On 14 April 2021, she was detained after a search in a case of involving minors in activities dangerous to their lives. On the same day, the court imposed on Tyszkiewicz a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain activities, which implied, inter alia, the inability to leave the house for more than one minute per day. Later, the court of appeal instance allowed Tyshkevich to walk for two hours. The investigation scheduled Tyshkevich for interrogations on all working days until the end of May.
On 12 April 2022 she was sentenced to two years of correctional labour, the preventive measure was cancelled.
In August, it became known that Tyshkevich left Russia. Later she was declared wanted.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Preventive measures
- ban on certain activities
Other people prosecuted under Article 151.2 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.