Name: Shut Lyudmila Aleksandrovna
Date of Birth: November 22, 1947
Current status: main sentence served
Articles of Criminal Code of Russian Federation: 282.2 (2)
Sentence: punishment in the form of 4 years of imprisonment with deprivation of the right to engage in activities related to participation in public organizations for a period of 4 years and with restriction of liberty for a period of 1 year; The sentence of imprisonment shall be considered suspended with a probationary period of 3 years
Died during prosecution

Biography

Lyudmila Shut, a widow and disabled person of group II, faced repression for her faith in 2019, when she was 72. First, she was interrogated in the case of a fellow believer and then accused of extremism.

Lyudmila was born in 1947 in the city of Makarov on Sakhalin. At an early age, the girl was left without a father. Growing up, she, as the eldest child in the family, helped her mother take care of her three sisters and brother. In her free time, Lyudmila liked skiing and horseback riding.

After school, the girl went to work, changing several professions during her long working life: she was a turner, milkmaid, foreman of a tractor-field brigade and manager of a state farm, and managed a warehouse. Lyudmila was married, raised three children and became a grandmother.

The woman got acquainted with the Bible in the early 2000s. She was especially moved by Bible prophecies, which have already come true, and God's promises about the future. In December 2003, she became one of Jehovah's Witnesses.

Years later, peaceful Lyudmila had to defend her faith in court. In her final statement, she said: "I have suffered many misfortunes in my life. I can hardly move on crutches, so as not to be a burden to anyone. After the search in my apartment on July 19, 2018, and to this day, I am stressed. My health condition has deteriorated." The youngest daughter, son and friends provided the believer with the necessary support during the criminal prosecution. Lyudmila died in the summer of 2025 because of a heart attack.

Case History

In February 2020, the Investigative Committee initiated a criminal case against Lyudmila Shut, a disabled person of group II from the village of Razdolnoye in the Primorsky Territory. The believer, aged 72, was charged with extremism. During the hearings in court, witnesses confirmed that they had never heard extremist statements from the defendant. After 5 months of proceedings in the case, the judge was changed, and the believer was forced to go through all stages of the trial anew. In May 2021, Lyudmila was sentenced to 4 years of probation. The appeal left the punishment unchanged. In August 2025, at the age of 77, the believer died as a result of a heart attack.
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