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01 Sep, 2025
Dmitry Protopopov, Artyom Vakhlyaev and Pavel Ivanov are political prisoners
Three employees of the publishing house Individuum Print have been charged with extremist activity as members of the so-called ‘international LGBT movement’ for distributing books.
29 Aug, 2025
Pavel Gladky is a political prisoner
A Stavropol resident has been sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of preparing to set fire to a military recruitment office and distributing leaflets with symbols of the Free Russia Legion
27 Aug, 2025
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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»
27 Aug, 2025
Ivan Bogdel (Khaitbaev) is a political prisoner
A fashion stylist and owner of the Voronezh nightclub Zebra faces two charges under anti-extremism laws, related to the ‘LGBT movement’
26 Aug, 2025
Valery Dobrovolsky is a political prisoner
A 68-year-old native of Ukraine living in Kamchatka has been placed under house arrest on a charge of ‘colluding’ with the Ukrainian Security Service
26 Aug, 2025
Vladimir Zhuravlyov is a political prisoner
A well-known defender of architectural heritage in St. Petersburg has been placed under house arrest on a charge of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army
25 Aug, 2025
Arsen Ablaev is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian citizen has been sentenced to four years and five months in a strict regime penal colony on a charge of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion
22 Aug, 2025
Oksana Hladkykh is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian woman has been sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for on a charge of treason against Russia
20 Aug, 2025
Aleksei Ustyuzhin is a political prisoner
A resident of Yekaterinburg has been forcibly detained in a psychiatric hospital after being prosecuted for publicly justifying terrorism
19 Aug, 2025
Oleh Zaklekta and Arkadii Lyubchenko are political prisoners
Two Ukrainian servicemen have been sentenced to long terms of imprisonment for participating in combat operations as members of the Aidar Battalion of the Ukrainian armed forces
18 Aug, 2025
Nikolai Elankin is a political prisoner
The Moscow resident has been jailed for administrative-law offences at least 11 times in a row, and then charged with ‘collusion’ with a foreign state
15 Aug, 2025
Andrei Kitkov is a political prisoner
A businessman from Sverdlovsk Oblast has been sentenced to five and a half years in a penal colony for a comment on the bombing of the Crimean Bridge
14 Aug, 2025
Those convicted in the ‘Baymak case’ are political prisoners
Forty-six participants in a public rally in support of opposition figure Fail Alsynov were sentenced to long terms of imprisonment
13 Aug, 2025
Galina Archagova is a political prisoner
A pensioner from Moscow has been committed to a psychiatric hospital after being charged with justifying terrorism and making online calls to engage in extremism
12 Aug, 2025
Sergei Krivosheev is a political prisoner
A resident of Voronezh Oblast has been sentenced to 10 months’ compulsory work on a charge of ‘discrediting’ Russia’s army for a repost on VK
11 Aug, 2025
Lyudmila Tulskaya is a political prisoner
A resident of Saratov has been convicted on a charge of ‘collusion’ with foreigners for allegedly corresponding with the Ukrainian Security Service
08 Aug, 2025
Serhii Chebukin is a political prisoner
A resident of Russian-occupied Kherson Oblast has been sentenced to 12 years and six months in a strict regime penal colony on a charge of treason for making two money transfers
07 Aug, 2025
Eight defendants in the case of the Crimean Bridge bombing are political prisoners
They have been sentenced to life imprisonment for alleged involvement in the explosion on 8 October 2022
06 Aug, 2025
Anton Zaitsev is a political prisoner
A resident of Pskov Oblast has been sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony for attempting to contact the Latvian embassy
05 Aug, 2025
Nikita Prosvirnin is a political prisoner
A former member of the Young Guard of the United Russia party faces up to eight years in a penal colony on a charge of ‘collusion’ with foreigners
04 Aug, 2025
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04 Aug, 2025
Anton Grishin is a political prisoner
A member of a district council in Moscow has been sentenced to three and a half years of imprisonment for donating to the Anti-Corruption Foundation
01 Aug, 2025
Vasily Zharkov is a political prisoner
A company manager from Moscow Oblast has been sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment on charges of preparing sabotage, filming military facilities and having ties to the Free Russia Legion
31 Jul, 2025
Yuriy Zadorozhnyi, Yuriy Sychenko, Ivan Furleta, and Yuriy Khaiuk are political prisoners
Four Ukrainian prisoners of war have been each sentenced to terms of 17 years’ imprisonment on charges of committing an act of terrorism for participating in combat in Russia’s Kursk Oblast
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