Kira Yarmysh
- Criminal Code
- Article 207.3 part 2 items b, d, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 236 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal CodeArticle 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war casesExtremism casesCases against "foreign agents"Cases against Navalny/ACF supportersCases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 9 months
- Date of verdict
- 2021-08-16
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Case summary
Spokesman for Alexei Navalny, author of the novel "The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3".
On 30 January 2021, she was detained as part of a criminal case on violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules. On 1 February, the court sent Yarmysh under house arrest. Later she was charged with incitement to violate the rules.
On 16 August she was sentenced to one and a half years of restricted freedom. On 30 August it became known that Yarmysh left Russia. On 11 March 2022, it was reported that Yarmysh was wanted. On 16 June, the court commuted her remaining sentence - nine months - to real deprivation of liberty.
In August 2022, it became known that a case was opened against Yarmysh for spreading deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces.
On 14 October 2022, she was entered in the register of individuals - "foreign agents".
Others charged under Article 207.3 part 2 items b, d, Russian Criminal Code
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