Lilia Chanysheva, former coordinator of the Ufa headquarters of Alexei Navalny (an organization that has been recognized extremist liquidated and banned in Russia), was sentenced to seven years and six months in prison.
She was found guilty of organizing an extremist community (Part 3 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and illegal actions against citizens (Part 3 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), as well as of inciting extremism (Part 1 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the correspondent reports. “Kommersant” from the courtroom. The decision was made by Judge Azamat Bikchurin of the Kirovsky District Court of Ufa.
The state prosecution demanded that Chanysheva be sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony and fined 700,000 rubles. She was detained in November 2021, and the hearings were held behind closed doors. Rustem Mulyukov, another former headquarters activist who was asked by the prosecutor’s office for five years in prison for participating in an extremist community (Part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), was sentenced to two and a half years in a penal colony.
As part of the Chanysheva case, the ex-editor-in-chief of Kommersant-Ufa, Natalya Pavlova, was also interrogated. Chanysheva did not admit her guilt and in her last word called the criminal case a political one. She claimed that after the election of Radiy Khabirov as the head of Bashkiria in 2019, the persecution of inappropriately thinking people began in the region.
