Natalia Voropaeva
Natalia Voropaeva, born 1971, Krasnoyarsk Krai. Charges: Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Organization of the activities of an extremist organization); “Natalya Voropaeva's case on participation in Jehovah's Witnesses activities”. Sentence (March 24, 2023): fine of 360 000 roubles. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as persecuted on political grounds, March 24, 2023.
In brief
Krasnoyarsk Krai · Krasnoyarsk · Hairdressers · Extremism cases, Cases against Jehovah's Witnesses
Sentence
fine of 360 000 roubles
No information about an appeal ruling.
Charges
- Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Organization of the activities of an extremist organization
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, she "directly participated in meetings, in reading and discussing texts from the Bible, in the performance of religious chants and prayers".
Latest event
September 11, 2024 — removed from the rosfinmonitoring list
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as persecuted on political grounds — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, March 24, 2023
Timeline
· Removed from the Rosfinmonitoring list
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· Persecution ends
· Recognised as persecuted on political grounds
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
Natalya Voropaeva's case on participation in Jehovah's Witnesses activities
Criminal case
Natalya Voropaeva's case on participation in Jehovah's Witnesses activities
Details and sources
Full summary
A hairdresser from Krasnoyarsk. In 2018, she was searched and later questioned as a witness in the case of Jehovah's Witness Andrei Stupnikov. In September 2022, she was brought as a defendant in the case of organising activities of an extremist organisation due to her involvement in the Jehovah's Witnesses community. Representatives of this community are prosecuted under extremist articles solely because of their religious activities - holding meetings and worship services and attracting new supporters. In January 2023, the case was brought to court. On 24 March 2023 Voropaeva was sentenced to a fine of 360 thousand rubles.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.