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16 Jul, 2026
Alyona Lysanova is a political prisoner
The daughter of a United Russia politician from Vologda Oblast was sentenced to 13 years for donations to the Ukrainian Armed Forces and online comments in their support
16 Jul, 2026
Database of the project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’
At least 5,648 people in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories have been deprived of liberty with signs of political motivation
16 Jul, 2026
Pensioner from Tver Oblast has six-year sentence upheld over an emotional comment about the tax service
Larisa Mikhay, 60, has had her six-year sentence to a general-regime penal colony upheld on appeal in a case concerning public incitement to terrorism.
15 Jul, 2026
Ariadna Litvinova is a political prisoner
A former police college student deported from Turkey is facing criminal charges for "discrediting" the Russian army over an anti-war protest
14 Jul, 2026
No contact with political prisoner Andrei Trofimov since April
There has been no contact with political prisoner Andrei Trofimov since April. He has not responded to letters and has not been brought out to meet with a lawyer.
14 Jul, 2026
Serhii Korzh is a political prisoner
An employee of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant abducted in occupied Enerhodar was sentenced to 13 years in prison on espionage charges
13 Jul, 2026
Crimean resident Halyna Dovhopola suffers stroke in Russian penal colony
Halyna Dovhopola, a 71-year-old resident of Sevastopol, has suffered a stroke in a Russian penal colony.
10 Jul, 2026
Anhelina Skyba is a political prisoner
The widow of a Ukrainian serviceman who died in Russian captivity was sentenced to 13 years in prison for money transfers to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
08 Jul, 2026
Luhansk resident convicted of service in the Aidar battalion dies in penal colony
Ibrahim Kudzhanov, who had been sentenced to 5.5 years' imprisonment for serving in the Aidar battalion, has died in a Russian penal colony.
07 Jul, 2026
Denys Popovych and Nikita Ivankovich are political prisoners
Two young Orthodox clerics face multiple criminal charges over an alleged plot to assassinate Metropolitan Tikhon (Shevkunov), described as Putin's 'confessor'
07 Jul, 2026
Aruna Arna is a political prisoner
Mother of three from Gorno-Altaysk sentenced to five years in prison for posting video clips set to revolutionary songs
06 Jul, 2026
Pensioner whose symptoms of dementia are worsening has her sentence increased for donating to the Ukrainian army
Halyna Bekhter, a 68-year-old resident of the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia Oblast, has had her sentence increased from eleven to twelve and a half years.
06 Jul, 2026
Ukrainian prisoner of war sentenced to 28 years develops gangrene in his arm
Ukrainian prisoner of war Denis Dorokhin has developed gangrene in the arm in which he was wounded in 2022.
06 Jul, 2026
Thirteen years for a Russian citizen who had lived in Ukraine over money transfers, twenty-seven years for a Ukrainian prisoner of war with Russian citizenship convicted of state treason and terrorism
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
02 Jul, 2026
Oleg Roldugin is a political prisoner
An investigative journalist faces up to six years in prison for using data lookup bots in his reporting
01 Jul, 2026
Nizhny Novgorod activist sentenced to two years for posts about Alexei Navalny and reposting ACF content
Nizhny Novgorod activist Tatyana Arshinova has been sentenced to two years in a general-regime penal colony after being convicted of participation in Alexei Navalny's 'extremist' organisations.
30 Jun, 2026
Semyon Kravchenko is a political prisoner
A Russian citizen who came under Russian shelling in Ukraine and later travelled to Russia from Norway was sentenced to 14 years in a strict-regime penal colony for donations to the Armed Forces of Ukraine
29 Jun, 2026
Former Kurchatov Institute physicist Dmitry Bogmut, convicted over anti-war comments, loses consciousness for the second time during prison roll call
Former Kurchatov Institute employee Dmitry Bogmut has once again lost consciousness during roll call at his penal colony.
29 Jun, 2026
Orenburg bar Pose owner and staff sentenced to up to seven years for alleged involvement in the ‘LGBT movement’
Vyacheslav Khasanov, the owner of Orenburg bar Pose, has been sentenced to 7 years in a penal colony, the bar's administrator Diana Kamilyanova to 6 years and 3 months, and art director Alexander Klimov to 2 years and 3 months.
28 Jun, 2026
Five and a half years for a wheelchair user over a comment, and fourteen years for a Ukrainian-born man over plans to join the Ukrainian armed forces and for ‘justifying terrorism’
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
26 Jun, 2026
Voronezh man sentenced to nine years after spending a year under extradition arrest in Kazakhstan
Pavel Vladimirov has been sentenced to nine years' imprisonment for attempting to join the Ukrainian army. Earlier he spent twelve months in custody in Kazakhstan.
25 Jun, 2026
Irkutsk man with epilepsy and a tracheostomy sentenced to fifteen years for treason
Dmitry Rupenko, who was detained after filming near an aviation plant, has been sentenced to fifteen years' imprisonment.
24 Jun, 2026
Yabloko deputy chairman Maksim Kruglov sentenced to seven years for posts about Bucha and Mariupol
Prosecutor Yulia Guznyayeva had sought a sentence of eight years
17 Jun, 2026
St Petersburg land registry employee sentenced to five years for comment on Belgorod residents sheltering from Russian missiles
Sergei Suptelya, an employee of Rosreestr, has been sentenced to five years in a penal colony under Russia’s law on military ‘fakes’.
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