Taisiya Osipova

Taisiya Vital'evna Osipova (Russian: Таисия Витальевна Осипова, born 26 August 1984 in Smolensk) is a Russian opposition activist from the unregistered National Bolshevik Party and "The Other Russia" party. She is the wife of opposition activist Sergei Fomchenkov.[1]

In 2011 Osipova was sentenced by the Russian courts to 10 years in prison for possession of heroin. In 2012 the sentence was reduced to 8 years in a retrial ordered by a higher court, after President Dmitry Medvedev had called her original sentence "too harsh". Osipova claims the heroin had been planted in a police raid. Mikhail Fedotov, head of Russia's council on human rights, has called the verdict a "legal mistake".[2][3]

She was released in February 2017.[4]

References
  1. "Russian opposition activist's wife Taisiya Osipova 'jailed over drugs'". The Independent. London. 28 August 2012.
  2. "Russian activist Taisiya Osipova given long sentence". BBC. 28 August 2012. Retrieved August 28, 2012.
  3. "Russian opposition activist jailed for eight years on drug charges". The Guardian. London. 28 August 2012.
  4. Russian Opposition Activist Osipova Released From Prison, Radio Free Europe, 28 February 2017
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