Search
Oksana Shchetkina
Office workers
1976-08-16
Imprisoned
Pyatigorsk
View in the Persecution Database
Biography
A resident of Pyatigorsk. Formerly a representative of the Falun Dafa Centre for Spiritual and Physical Development (another name for Falun Gong, a Chinese system of spiritual practices). No later than March 2024, she was placed under house arrest in the case of participation in the activities of an "undesirable organisation". Later it became known that Shchetkina was accused of organising the activities of an "undesirable organisation".
On 27 November 2024, Shchetkina was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony.
NO ONE WILL EVER KNOW
Unless someone writes about it. OVD-Info is often the sole source for news on repression, while also providing legal aid to political prisoners. We depend entirely on your support to continue. Join our recurring donors to keep these stories—and people—from being forgotten.