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After the illegal and unjustified liquidation of the Memorial Human Rights Center, with the consent of its Council, our team continues the work of the Memorial Human Rights Center Support Program for Political Prisoners as an independent human rights project

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New political prisoners:

Political prisoners:

2329

since 2009

1664

now

Who are political prisoners

Political prisoners

Number of figurants: 1664

Other victims of political repression

Number of figurants: 26

Political Prisoners — Victims of the War

Number of figurants: 520

Persecuted Jehovah's Witnesses

Number of figurants: 210

List of persecuted Hizb ut-Tahrir members

Number of figurants: 220

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08 Jun, 2026

Database of the project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’

At least 5,468 people in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories have been deprived of liberty with signs of political motivation
08 Jun, 2026

Journalist from Mari El arrested over discussion of First Chechen War in online chat

Aleksei Seryogin, an independent journalist from Yoshkar-Ola, was remanded in custody. He faces charges of justification of terrorism.
05 Jun, 2026

Kaliningrad lawyer sentenced to one year in penal colony for 500-rouble transfer to Anti-Corruption Foundation

Vladimir Sorokin, a lawyer, has been sentenced to one year in a colony and was remanded in custody on a charge of financing extremism.
05 Jun, 2026

Denis Bushtet is a political prisoner

A cossack from Primorsky krai was sentenced to 13 years for treason for telling a Ukrainian volunteer about volunteers who had gone to war
04 Jun, 2026

Nikolai Gaiduk is a political prisoner

A German citizen of Ukrainian origin was detained while entering Kaliningrad Region, allegedly framed with explosives, tortured, and accused of a terrorist attack
03 Jun, 2026

Maria Ponomarenko handed third conviction

Journalist Maria Ponomarenko, already serving a sentence under Russia’s ‘military fakes’ law, has had her prison term extended again.
03 Jun, 2026

Smolensk man charged with spreading ‘military fakes’ remanded in custody after attempted flight from Russia

Alexander Kislovsky, a 66-year-old resident of Smolensk charged with spreading so-called ‘military fakes’, has been remanded in custody after being detained in Vyborg.
03 Jun, 2026

Georgy Paramoshin and Kirill Nikulenkov are political prisoners

Students from the Moscow Oblast and Arkhangelsk were sentenced to 8 and 3.5 years in prison for publications on the Telegram channel 'NATSDEM'
02 Jun, 2026

Belgian-Russian programmer sentenced to sixteen years for treason after travelling to Russia to visit his father

The Pskov Regional Court has sentenced Mikhail Loshchinin, a citizen of Belgium and Russia, to sixteen years in a penal colony.

08 Jun, 2026

Database of the project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’

At least 5,468 people in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories have been deprived of liberty with signs of political motivation
08 Jun, 2026

Journalist from Mari El arrested over discussion of First Chechen War in online chat

Aleksei Seryogin, an independent journalist from Yoshkar-Ola, was remanded in custody. He faces charges of justification of terrorism.
05 Jun, 2026

Kaliningrad lawyer sentenced to one year in penal colony for 500-rouble transfer to Anti-Corruption Foundation

Vladimir Sorokin, a lawyer, has been sentenced to one year in a colony and was remanded in custody on a charge of financing extremism.
03 Jun, 2026

Maria Ponomarenko handed third conviction

Journalist Maria Ponomarenko, already serving a sentence under Russia’s ‘military fakes’ law, has had her prison term extended again.
03 Jun, 2026

Smolensk man charged with spreading ‘military fakes’ remanded in custody after attempted flight from Russia

Alexander Kislovsky, a 66-year-old resident of Smolensk charged with spreading so-called ‘military fakes’, has been remanded in custody after being detained in Vyborg.
02 Jun, 2026

Belgian-Russian programmer sentenced to sixteen years for treason after travelling to Russia to visit his father

The Pskov Regional Court has sentenced Mikhail Loshchinin, a citizen of Belgium and Russia, to sixteen years in a penal colony.
01 Jun, 2026

Administrator of ‘Free Lapland’ Telegram channel sentenced to fifteen years

Rafael Mamedov, a student from Murmansk who administered the Telegram channel ‘Free Lapland’, has been sentenced to fifteen years’ imprisonment.
27 May, 2026

Ukrainian woman whose partner died at Azovstal sentenced to fourteen years in a penal colony

Anna Belyayeva, a resident of the occupied city of Berdiansk, has been sentenced to 14n years in a penal colony on espionage charges.
25 May, 2026

Ukrainian pensioner jailed for donating to the Ukrainian army may be developing dementia in custody

Halyna Bekhter, 68, who was sentenced to 11 years in prison for donating to the Ukrainian army, is experiencing a rapid deterioration in her mental and physical health at Remand Prison.

Mediazona 21 Apr, 2026

The 225 donor cases. Russian authorities continue to prosecute donors to Navalny’s Anti‑Corruption Foundation across the country

At least 225 criminal cases had been opened across Russia over donations to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF) made after it was banned as “extremist” in August 2021
Novaya gazeta 17 Apr, 2026

Artist Liudmila Razumova fears for her life in Russian remand centre

Politprisoner Liudmila Razumova is reportedly in fear for her life following an escalation of hostilities at a remand centre in Tver.
The Insider 14 Apr, 2026

More than 2,200 Ukrainian citizens have been charged in Russia under terrorism and extremism statutes — fewer than 1% have been exchanged

As of mid-March 2026, Russia has charged at least 2,278 Ukrainian citizens under terrorism and extremism statutes
The Insider 27 Aug, 2025

Over 300 Ukrainian soldiers who fought in the AFU’s Kursk incursion convicted in Russia on “terrorism” charges

Более 300 украинских военных, участвовавших в боях в Курской области, осуждены в России за «терроризм»