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28 Oct, 2026
Boris Todaev is a political prisoner
The 66-year-old editor-in-chief of the Elista newspaper Narn is accused of justifying Nazism for publishing an article about the victims of the deportation of the Kalmyk people
28 Oct, 2026
Database of the project ‘Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial’
At least 5,800 people in Russia and the occupied Ukrainian territories have been deprived of liberty with signs of political motivation
26 Oct, 2026
Aleksandr Kondratov, Liquidation production designer accused of treason, dies
Aleksandr Kondratov, a production designer who won Golden Eagle and TEFI awards for the 2007 Russian television series Liquidation, has died in Moscow while facing a treason charge.
26 Oct, 2026
Organising the financing of terrorism over a single Telegram post, treason over serving in the Armed Forces of Ukraine after mobilisation and extremism over teaching prayer
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
23 Oct, 2026
Dozens of Ukrainian POWs sentenced to lengthy terms in Russia return hom
As part of the latest stage of a ‘combined prisoner exchange’, 270 Ukrainians have returned to Ukraine. At least 58 of those released had been convicted by Russian courts on criminal charges.
23 Oct, 2026
Ilya Chubukov is a political prisoner
A programmer from Belgorod sentenced to 6.5 years in a penal colony after being accused of setting fire to a Z-shaped installation and possessing a grenade
22 Oct, 2026
Jehovah’s Witness Aleksandr Kutin released after serving his sentence
Jehovah’s Witness Aleksandr Kutin, 44, was released on 16 October 2026 after completing his term.
22 Oct, 2026
Nova Kakhovka resident sentenced to 12.5 years on charges of passing information to Ukrainian intelligence. Her husband was previously convicted in a similar case
A resident of occupied Nova Kakhovka Nadiia Berezhna has been sentenced to 12.5 years on charges of high treason. Her husband Andrii Berezhnyi was previously sentenced to 11 years.
21 Oct, 2026
Meduza
Who is Stephen Hubbard, the American Putin just freed?
Vladimir Putin has released U.S. citizen Stephen Hubbard, who had been convicted by a Russian court on mercenary charges
21 Oct, 2026
Moscow court sentences sports coach to five years in a penal colony for spreading military ‘fake news’
According to publicly available sources, Oleg Gulik, 42, worked as an athletics coach for the Moscow City branch of the Dynamo sports society
21 Oct, 2026
Meduza
Russia’s FSB says it detained German citizen who fought for Ukraine
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Russian law enforcement authorities detained a German citizen who allegedly signed a contract with the Ukrainian army and deserted.
20 Oct, 2026
Meduza
Russian scientists and university staff face mounting prosecutions over years-old donations to Navalny’s anti-corruption group. More than 10 cases reached Moscow courts in six months.
Scientists and university faculty in Russia are increasingly facing prosecution for financing “extremism” through donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), Mediazona reported.
20 Oct, 2026
FSB videos: behind the scenes of dramatic arrests
Political Prisoners Memorial examined 70 politically motivated criminal cases to find out what goes into a typical FSB video
19 Oct, 2026
Forced labour for a 100-rouble transfer and six years for ‘teaching religion’
Читайте в нашем обзоре об этих и других делах политзеков, которых мы признали на прошлой неделе
16 Oct, 2026
Meduza
Russian mathematician Semyon Krasotkin charged with treason over $26 in paid Telegram reactions to Ukrainian and opposition channels
Semyon Krasotkin, a 27-year-old mathematician and journalist from Moscow, has been jailed on treason charges, the news outlet Vot Tak reported.
15 Oct, 2026
Meduza
Japan denies spying in Russia, says it can’t contact detained journalist
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Japanese authorities do not engage in espionage in Russia, responding to the detention of Hokkaido Shimbun correspondent Yuki Imai in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
15 Oct, 2026
Jehovah’s Witness from Kemerovo Oblast sentenced to six years in a penal colony on extremism charges
Vitaliy Syrykh, a Jehovah’s Witness, has been sentenced to six years in a general-regime penal colony on charges of organising the activities of a banned religious association
15 Oct, 2026
Fyodor Sidushkin is a political prisoner
A 21-year-old law student from Moscow sentenced to two years of compulsory labour for transferring 100 rubles to the founder of 'Male State' in 2022
15 Oct, 2026
Meduza
FSB says it detained a Swedish citizen in Russia, accuses him of fighting for Ukraine and plotting sabotage
Russia’s Federal Security Service says it detained a Swedish citizen in the Pskov region, alleging he fought on the side of Ukraine’s armed forces in the Russia–Ukraine war.
14 Oct, 2026
Meduza
Russian political scientist Alexander Kynev, arrested on drug charges and reportedly beaten so badly his leg was broken in two places, faces transfer to another detention center, lawyer says
Political scientist Alexander Kynev, who was arrested in connection with an alleged attempt to sell drugs, was due to be transferred from the Matrosskaya Tishina pretrial detention center to another detention facility on October 14, his lawyer Mikhail Biryukov said.
14 Oct, 2026
Muslim man jailed in Russia over Hizb ut-Tahrir links dies in penal colony
Rustam Khalikov jailed in Russia over alleged involvement in the banned group Hizb ut-Tahrir has died in a penal colony.
14 Oct, 2026
Russia’s FSB releases ‘confession’ video of former teacher detained in occupied Kherson
Russia’s security service, the FSB, has published a video in which a woman from the occupied part of Kherson Oblast says she was detained over comments she posted on the Telegram messaging app.
13 Oct, 2026
Meduza
Who is Sofya Rozenfeld, the internationally renowned Russian ornithologist sentenced to three and a half years for donating to Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation?
Sofya Rozenfeld has spent her life studying Arctic birds: traveling to Russia’s Far North on expeditions, following flocks of geese in a seaplane, and fighting to protect rare species. Now the scientist, one of Russia’s leading ornithologists with a doctorate in biological sciences, has been sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony for two donations of 1,000 rubles each to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
13 Oct, 2026
Meduza
Jailed Russian historian Yury Dmitriev, who uncovered Soviet mass graves, is sent back to prison without a diagnosis after a suspected stroke, supporters say
Historian Yury Dmitriev, 70, has been returned to Penal Colony No. 18 in Mordovia from a prison hospital, the human rights group ZPCh said, citing his support group. He was taken to the hospital in late September with a suspected stroke.
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