{"id":2990,"date":"2025-09-16T06:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/?p=2990"},"modified":"2025-09-16T06:06:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:06:58","slug":"a-crimean-woman-kidnapped-last-year-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/a-crimean-woman-kidnapped-last-year-sentenced-to-15-years-in-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"A Crimean woman kidnapped last year sentenced to 15 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The \u201cSupreme Court of Crimea\u201d has announced a verdict in yet another case of alleged state treason. No information about the defendant appears on the court\u2019s official website, but according to \u201cCrimean Process,\u201d the case concerns Lera Dzhemilova, a resident of Dzhankoi district, who was abducted in May of last year and held in complete isolation for more than ten months without the right to legal assistance. In March 2025, she was charged with \u201cstate treason\u201d for allegedly passing information about air defense facilities to Ukrainian intelligence.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The entire trial was held behind closed doors. However, \u201cCrimean Process\u201d learned that during the debates the state prosecutor demanded a guilty verdict with an 18-year prison sentence. After two days of deliberations, the court handed down a sentence of 15 years\u2019 imprisonment, followed by one and a half years of restricted freedom and a fine of 100,000 rubles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Experts point to obvious violations in this case, including the closed nature of the trial, late notification of the date and place of hearings, and signs of bias and dependence of the court. The decision was issued by Judge Alla Khinevich, who herself was sentenced by a Ukrainian court to 14 years in prison for state treason. For this reason, the impartiality of the court in cases involving individuals accused of working with Ukrainian intelligence raises serious doubts. Additionally, the speed of the proceedings is striking\u2014the court held three sessions and then, on the fourth, withdrew for deliberation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-verse\">This article is the property of the Crimean Process. Read the news in Russian on its <a href=\"https:\/\/crimean-process.org\/pohishhennuyu-v-proshlom-godu-krymchanku-lishili-svobody-na-15-let\/\">website<\/a>.<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cSupreme Court of Crimea\u201d has announced a verdict in yet another case of alleged state treason. No information about the defendant appears on the court\u2019s official website, but according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2991,"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2990\/revisions\/2991"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hrhcrimea.org.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}