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Barabash Ekaterina Yurievna

Date of birth: April 26, 1961 (65 years old)
citizenship: Россия
Occupation: журналистика
Article of the Criminal Code:  207.3 ч. 2 para. «д»
Form of repression:  wanted
Pursuit stage:  verdict delivered – appeal pending
Date of arrest:  February 25, 2025
Sentence:  5 лет лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  March 25, 2026
Current location:  not in custody
Lists of persecuted:  Current list of those persecuted without imprisonment

Barabash Ekaterina Yurievna, born on April 26, 1961 in Ukraine, journalist and film critic.

Accused under paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ("Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation motivated by political hatred").

She was detained on February 25, 2025, and placed under house arrest the next day.

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