Darya Trepova

Darya Yevgenyevna Trepova (Дарья Евгеньевна Трепова; born 16 February 1997) is a Russian political activist and convicted terrorist from St. Petersburg.

Biography
Trepova was born in St. Petersburg in 1997. She graduated for her secondary education at Lyceum No. 408 in Pushkin. Her father died when she was finishing at the Lyceum. After graduating, Trepova went to the medical faculty of Saint Petersburg State University. Trepova combined her studies at the university with a part-time job in dentistry, and as a freelance designer and working as an administrator in a vintage clothing store. Trepova became a feminist and vegan and attended Russian opposition events. In 2019, Trepova dropped out of the university of her own will.

During the Russian invasion of Ukraine Trepova participated in anti-war protests. On 24 February 2022 at 20:05, Trepova was detained in front of house number 35 on Nevsky Prospekt in Saint Petersburg and later arrested by the Krasnoselsky District Court of Saint Petersburg for 10 days. Later she moved to Moscow, where she rented an apartment near the Medvedkovo metro station, and then to Georgia, where she lived for six months. Due to financial difficulties, Trepova was forced to return to Russia. The media paid attention to her October 2022 Twitter posts stating she "thinks about suicide from 20 to 150 times a day" "without a note of self-pity". The following month, Trepova deleted her Twitter account.

On 9 March 2023, Trepova registered as an individual entrepreneur.

On 3 April 2023, Trepova was arrested and accused of a bombing committed less than 24 hours prior that led to the death of Vladlen Tatarsky and injuring 52 others.

On 25 January 2024, Trepova was then convicted by a military court in Saint Petersburg of terrorism, handling explosives and using forged documents and sentenced to 27 years in prison, one of the harshest sentence given to a woman in Russia. She pledged guilty only to the charge of document forgery. She said that she was following orders from contact in Ukraine named "Gestalt", who assured her that the statuette contained only a wiretap and a tracker, not a bomb. Trepova said she had assumed that the reason for eavesdropping on Tatarsky was to find out more of what he knew about the war, which she opposed. Her legal team said that they would appeal.