Name: Abrosimova Galina Alekseyevna
Date of Birth: August 24, 1966
Current status: convicted person
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (1)
Time spent in prison: 2 day in a temporary detention facility
Current restrictions: suspended sentence
Sentence: punishment in the form of imprisonment for a term of 6 years with restriction of liberty for a term of 1 year and with deprivation of the right to engage in educational and educational activities for a term of 5 years, the main punishment in the form of imprisonment shall be considered suspended with a probationary period of 4 years

Biography

In the summer of 2019, 35 searches were carried out in several settlements of the Nizhny Novgorod region. Galina Abrosimova spent two days in the detention center, accused of extremism and eventually sentenced to 6 years suspended sentence.

Galina was born in 1966 in the village of Prigorodnoye, Penza region. She is the eldest of three children. Their parents are no longer alive. As a child, Galina likedy to do needlework—knitting, sewing. After school, she received the profession of pharmacist and worked in it for 10 years. Later, she took courses as a histologist laboratory assistant and devoted 20 years to this work. In 2014, she took a well-deserved rest but continues to do needlework. She sews and helps in the atelier.

When Galina lost her husband in 2000, she began to study the Bible. The clarity and practicality of the Scriptures touched her heart. Galina sought to bring up her two children in accordance with the commandments of this wise book. Today they are adults, their son Aleksandr is a refrigerator repairman.

The children are outraged by the criminal prosecution of their mother for her faith. They cannot understand how she could have been convicted of a crime she did not commit.

In June 2024, Galina was suspected of having cancer. She was unable to pass the examination as she was searched again and spent almost the entire day in police custody. At the end of September, the diagnosis was confirmed. During these months, the tumor almost doubled in size. Galina underwent surgery in November 2024 and has been undergoing chemotherapy since December. Relatives and friends support the believer.

Case History

In July 2019, Nizhny Novgorod security forces came with searches to 35 homes of peaceful believers, and several criminal cases were initiated. One of them is against the widow Galina Abrosimova and two other believers (their case is separated into separate proceedings). As it turned out later, local Jehovah’s Witnesses were under covert video surveillance, their telephone conversations were tapped. Oleg Makerov, an investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Nizhny Novgorod region, accused Galina of organizing the activities of an extremist organization because of her religion. The believer spent 2 days in the temporary detention facility, after which they took a written undertaking not to leave her place. In September 2021, the criminal case went to court. The prosecutor requested that Abrosimova be sentenced to 7 years in prison. In May 2022, the court sentenced her to 6 years probation, and in August of the same year, the appeal upheld this decision.
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