Nadezhda is a paediatrician who spent decades looking after children at a Moscow clinic. In 2024 the mother of one of her young patients claimed she had made an anti-war remark during an appointment, and that one accusation was enough for a criminal case over "fakes" about the army. Nadezhda denies saying it. At 68 she was sentenced to five and a half years in a penal colony, and she turned 70 behind bars.
