Narskaya Natalya Nikolaevna

In the city of Lyubertsy in April 2023, the senior investigator of the Lyubertsy department of the Investigative Committee D. Kooshkin initiated a criminal case on extremism and calls for extremist activity against 28-year-old vocal teacher Natalya Narskaya. According to the investigation, in 2022, the woman published several posts on VKontakte that incited hatred against Russian military personnel and 'a group of individuals distinguished by national characteristics: Russians, Russia,' as well as containing calls for violence (destruction and discrimination). Narskaya herself left Russia after the war began and lived in Almaty. On June 26, 2023, Narskaya was placed on the international wanted list and placed under house arrest in absentia. 22 July 2023, Kazakhstani police detained Narskaya in Almaty at the request of the Russian Federation. She came to the police herself in response to a summons, where she was immediately detained for 72 hours, and then, by court decision, subjected to extradition arrest for 12 months and placed in a pre-trial detention center. According to local human rights defenders, Natalya had a nervous breakdown in the pre-trial detention center. She became withdrawn, refused to communicate with the lawyer, trusted no one. In moments of exacerbation, she would take off her clothes, throw herself at people, and smear the walls of the cell with her own excrement. Because of this, she was almost constantly in the punishment cell and screamed. The reasons for these exacerbations are unknown, human rights activists deny that she was tortured. Natalia had representatives of the public oversight commission and even psychiatrists, but they could not provide any help. The Kazakh Bureau for Human Rights reached an agreement to provide legal assistance to Narvskaya's mother, and the lawyer managed to obtain a certificate of asylum seeker status for Natalya in Kazakhstan." On July 23, 2024, Narskaya was released from the pre-trial detention center.