Shokhista Karimova

Resident of St. Petersburg. Detained on 6 April 2017 during a search. Karimova claims that explosives were planted on her. She was taken into custody on charges of involvement in the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro on 3 April 2017, as human rights activists believe, without grounds. Later, according to Karimova, people came to her in the pre-trial detention centre posing as operatives and demanding that she admit that the explosives were not planted, but were given to her by another defendant in the case, promising that in this case she would be released.

On 10 December 2019, she was sentenced to 20 years in a general regime colony. On 6 August 2021, the court of appeal reduced the sentence by one month.

On 26 July 2023, it became known that Karimova went on hunger strike due to the fact that her account in the colony was being unreasonably debited and the administration refused to give her glasses, without which she cannot work, and shoes.

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