Personal Information
- Birth date
- 4 нояб. 1956 г. (69 years old)
- Special circumstances
- human rights defender, pensioner, dependent child/children, illness, disability
- Notes
- Former chairwoman of the Chelyabinsk "Voice. In 2023, against the background of a serious illness, gangrene began in Natalia's son, part of his leg was amputated and he was assigned a 3rd group of disability. Since then, all the family's money has gone towards expensive treatment, and Natalia spends most of her time caring for her son. She has had two heart attacks, three heart surgeries, and she has a third disability group.
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Guseva Natalya Aleksandrovna
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Chelyabinsk Oblast
- Detention date:
- 17 авг. 2023 г.
- Charges:
- Art. 207.3 CC RF Part 1, Art. 280.3 CC RF Part 1
- Sentence:
- ₽ fine
- Case categories:
- Anti-war case, Freedom of speech, Anti-war case, Freedom of speech
Case Description
A criminal case for 'fakes' about the Russian army was opened against Natalya Guseva, chairwoman of the Chelyabinsk 'Voice', in August 2023. A search was conducted at her place. The reason for the criminal prosecution was posts on "Odnoklassniki" about military actions in Mariupol and Kharkiv. In the opinion of FSB experts, the publication by the user <...> contains the following information about the activities of state bodies of the Russian Federation: 1) the current President of the Russian Federation ordered the RF Armed Forces to drop a bomb on the Mariupol Drama Theater; 2) the current President of the Russian Federation ordered to drop a bomb on the Drama Theater because he decided to take revenge on the residents of Mariupol for digging trenches in 2014 to save themselves from Russian tanks." 2. A search in the case of the chairwoman of the Chelyabinsk "Voice" was also conducted at the local activist and co-organizer of the "YouAreNotAlone74" project, Ildar Baimuratov. He is a witness in the case. On February 6, 2024, Judge Natalya Sviridova of the Zlatoust City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region found Natalya Guseva guilty and sentenced her to a fine of 700 thousand. rubles. The verdict was not appealed and entered into legal force. In July 2024, in the city of Zlatoust, Chelyabinsk Oblast, a search was conducted at the home of pensioner Natalya Guseva, a former coordinator of the local branch of the Golos movement. A criminal case was opened against her for repeated "discrediting of the army. The reason for the criminal prosecution was a comment in "Odnoklassniki" published in June 2023. What exactly it consisted of is unknown. As a preventive measure, Gusyeva was placed under a written undertaking not to leave. Earlier, in May 2023, a court in Zlatoust fined Guseva in a case of an administrative offense under the article on discrediting the RF Armed Forces due to two anti-war posts on 'Odnoklassniki'. The publications on Gusyeva's page discussed the need to stop the war and withdraw troops from occupied territories, as well as the 59 children who were held in the basement of the village of Yagodnoye by Russian soldiers. On January 14, 2025, the Zlatoust City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region found Natalya Guseva guilty and sentenced her to two years of imprisonment with a suspended sentence.
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