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Shchekoldina Lyudmila Ivanovna

Date of birth: June 25, 1976 (49 years old)
citizenship: Россия
City of residence: ст-ца Павловская (Краснодарский край)
Article of the Criminal Code:  282.2 ч. 1
Form of repression:  no prosecution
Pursuit stage:  end of prosecution
Sentence:  4 года 1 месяц лишения свободы в колонии общего режима
Date of sentencing:  May 24, 2022
Current location:  not in custody
Date of release:  April 15, 2026
Lists of persecuted:  Archive

Shchekoldina Lyudmila Ivanovna, born June 25, 1976, lives in the village of Pavlovskaya, Krasnodar Krai, janitor at a sports school.

Under Part 1.1 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code ("Involvement in the activities of an extremist organisation") and Part 2 of Article 282.2 of the Russian Criminal Code (participation in the activities of an extremist organisation") in connection with membership in the community of Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, she was sentenced to 4 years and 1 month in a general regime penal colony.

Since April 29, 2020, she has been under a written undertaking not to leave. Since May 23, 2022, she has been in custody.

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