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Aleksandr Martynov and Liudmila Razumova were sentenced to terms of imprisonment for vandalism and ‘fake news’ about the army The human rights project ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’ considers Aleksandr Martynov and Liudmila Razumova political prisoners in accordance with international standards. Their criminal prosecution for non-violent anti-war actions violates the right to freedom of speech and is […]

In view of the particular attention paid to the problems of criminal and administrative prosecution for political reasons, the cases of which have been numerous in recent years in the former Soviet republics;

Member of the Petrozavodsk city council from the Yabloko party Olga Zaletskaya and managing director of the Lentorg trading house Alexandra Kornilova were arrested on March 25, 2015. They were charged under part 4, article 159 of the Russian Criminal Code (“Embezzlement, committed by a group of

The journalists stand accused of ‘participation in Navalny’s extremist group’ because of their professional work The ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’ human rights project, in accordance with international standards, considers Olga Komleva, Antonina Favorskaya (Kravtsova), Konstantin Gabov and Sergei Karelin political prisoners. They are being prosecuted on a charge of ‘participation in an extremist group’ because of […]

He was arrested for spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian military for his anti-war comments on the Internet The ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’ human rights project, in accordance with international standards, considers Viktor Moskalyov a political prisoner. He has been prosecuted for posting anti-war comments on a professional website under Article 207.3 of the Russian Criminal […]

The 19-year-old activist from Irkutsk has been sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony The ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’ human rights project in accordance with international standards, considers Ilya Podkamenny a political prisoner. He has been convicted of inciting extremism and propaganda of terrorism on account of leaflets he left on railway tracks […]

An animal rights activist from the Moscow region was sentenced to 6 years in prison for posting about Russian war crimes The ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’ human rights project, in accordance with international standards, considers Aleksandr Bakhtin a political prisoner. He is being prosecuted under the article on the dissemination of ‘fake’ news about […]

On January 1, 2014 resident of Staraya Russa Anton Izokaytis was taken by the police to the Starorussky inter-municipal station of the Russian Interior Ministry, according to a sentence for minor hooliganism, and placed in a cell for administrative detainees. There, as the sentence says, from 8 am

Their charitable work in Dagestan was considered support for terrorism and both were sentenced to serve almost 20 years in a strict-regime penal colony The ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’ human rights project, in accordance with international standards, considers Abubakar Rizvanov and Kemal Tambiev political prisoners. Rizvanov and Tambiev were prosecuted and convicted on charges of ‘participation […]

If convicted on charges of participation in Hizb ut-Tahrir, they could face up to life imprisonment The ‘Political Prisoners. Memorial’ human rights project considers Marat Bazarbaev and Vadim Nasyrov, who are Muslims from the Chelyabinsk region, political prisoners in accordance with international standards. They are being prosecuted for alleged involvement in Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami, which […]