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Five years for a Ukrainian-born woman over posts about Bucha and seven years for a pensioner over a video title
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
28 Aug, 2026
Volodymyr Kulbatskyi is a political prisoner
Ukrainian citizen who worked as a security guard in Russia sentenced to almost eight years in prison for allegedly having been a member of the Right Sector in his youth
26 Aug, 2026
Angelina Mkhitaryan is a political prisoner
7-year prison sentence for a pensioner from Primorye: security officials found calls for both extremism and terrorism in a short sentence
24 Aug, 2026
11 years for anti-war posts on Instagram and 15.5 years for leaflets left in a cemetery
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
20 Aug, 2026
Mikhail Kuzin is a political prisoner
22-year-old resident of Chelyabinsk Oblast sentenced to 15.5 years in prison for putting up leaflets in a cemetery
18 Aug, 2026
Vladimir Grabovetsky and Polina Kuzmina are political prisoners
Russian citizen sentenced to 14 years in prison for transferring funds to the Ukrainian Armed Forces, while Ukrainian citizen sentenced to 12 years for aiding him
17 Aug, 2026
Arrest over 219 roubles’ worth of Telegram ‘stars’, and 15 years on a fabricated espionage charge
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
13 Aug, 2026
Galina Umyarova is a political prisoner
A pensioner from Domodedovo is accused of financing terrorism for sending Telegram Stars worth 219 rubles under a post by the Freedom of Russia Legion
11 Aug, 2026
Adrian-David Kercho is a political prisoner
A young Romanian citizen who traveled to Abkhazia to visit his girlfriend was handed over to Russia. There, he was tortured, accused of espionage, and sentenced to 15 years in prison
10 Aug, 2026
Sixteen years for a pensioner for photographing warships, and twenty years for a biker for graffiti
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
07 Aug, 2026
Ibragim Nagoev is a political prisoner
A resident of Maykop was sentenced to 11 years in prison after being accused of communicating with the 'Council of United Circassia'
04 Aug, 2026
Aleksei Larionov is a political prisoner
Biker from Kostroma sentenced to 20 years in prison over graffiti
03 Aug, 2026
Two and a half years for spitting on a St George ribbon, and eight years for posts on a blocked page
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
31 Jul, 2026
Natalya Shakh is a political prisoner
Сотрудницу дома культуры и певицу из маленького посёлка в Пермском крае приговорили к 5,5 годам заключения за три комментария в VK
28 Jul, 2026
Dmitry Sorokin is a political prisoner
A St. Petersburg mover was sentenced to eight years in prison over posts on a blocked VK page
26 Jul, 2026
Prosecution of a schoolboy over a sixteen-second oath, and a customs officer over a comment reading ‘Good news this fine morning’
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
22 Jul, 2026
Boris Rudnitsky is a political prisoner
A St. Petersburg man was placed in pre-trial detention over the comment 'Good news to start the day' beneath a report about the death of a crime boss
20 Jul, 2026
Danila Smirnov is a political prisoner
A schoolboy from Astrakhan faces terrorism charges over Telegram messages, a video "oath," and a photograph of a mosque allegedly linked to the Freedom of Russia Legion
20 Jul, 2026
Six years for a schoolboy for arson ‘on the instructions of Ukrainian intelligence’, and five and a half years for a farmer for two comments about Azov
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
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
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
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
Prosecutions for defending indigenous peoples’ rights, singing ‘Varshavianka’, and subscribing to a Telegram channel about torture
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised last week
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
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