All assessments of the criminal prosecution of specific individuals, including the designation of detained persons as political prisoners, reflect the position of our Project. Such assessments are not based on the views and assessments of the individuals being prosecuted, their families, friends or lawyers, and do not imply their consent or approval. The information regarding the facts of specific criminal cases published on our Project’s website has been obtained from public sources and does not imply or require the consent of the individuals mentioned therein or their representatives.
A blogger from Komi was sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment on terrorism-related charges for anti-war posts on Telegram
11 Mar, 2024
Dmitry Lyamin is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to eight years in a strict regime penal colony on charges of terrorism for trying to set fire to a military recruitment centre
07 Mar, 2024
Vyacheslav Reznichenko is a political prisoner
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06 Mar, 2024
Human rights defender Oleg Orlov is a political prisoner
Oleg Orlov, one of the founders of Memorial, has been sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for an article in which he opposed the war and called the Putin regime fascist
04 Mar, 2024
Musician Eduard Sharlot is a political prisoner
Его преследуют по статьям об осквернении символов воинской славы, оскорблении чувств верующих и повреждении документов из-за высказываний против российских властей и войны с Украиной
29 Feb, 2024
Maria Mekhedova is a political prisoner
She has been placed under house arrest for comments about the killing of Russian propagandist Vladlen Tatarsky
28 Feb, 2024
Mikhail Babintsev is a political prisoner
Babintsev, a photographer from Buryatia, was sentenced to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony on charges of terrorism for the arson of a military recruitment centre
26 Feb, 2024
Boris Goncharenko and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov are political prisoners
The residents of Krasnodar Krai face up to 20 years’ imprisonment for the attempted arson of a military recruitment centre
19 Feb, 2024
Vyacheslav Malakhov is a political prisoner
A blogger has been remanded in custody for a post on Telegram on charges of ‘repeated’ discrediting of the Russian army
09 Feb, 2024
Ukrainians Volodymyr Udovyka, Volodymyr Linnyk, Viktoriia Tkachenko, and Nataliia Prydatchenko are political prisoners
The former soldiers of the Aidar battalion have been sentenced to terms of up to six years in a strict regime penal colony for ‘participation in a terrorist group’
02 Feb, 2024
Gaziz Davletbaev is a political prisoner
He is being prosecuted on charges of justification of terrorism for a post on the VK social media site
12 Jan, 2024
Ukrainian Azov regiment POWs are political prisoners
24 украинских бойца и служащих судят по статьям о терроризме и попытке насильственного захвата власти
11 Jan, 2024
Anna Aleksandrova is a political prisoner
A hairdresser from St Petersburg is facing up to 10 years in prison for anti-war posts on social media
21 Dec, 2023
Andrei Etkeev is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment for reposts about Russian crimes in Bucha
15 Dec, 2023
Shakhban Abakargadzhiev is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to forced labour because of a post about killings in Bucha
08 Dec, 2023
Vadim Kharchenko is a political prisoner
A YouTube blogger has been placed under house arrest for speculating on reasons for the Russian military's withdrawal from Kherson in Ukraine
22 Nov, 2023
Matvei Yuferov is a political prisoner
Matvei Yuferov was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of rehabilitating Nazism for urinating on a display that contained a veteran’s portrait
21 Nov, 2023
Kirill Akimov is a political prisoner
He was convicted of ‘public incitement of terrorism’ for statements he made against the war on Ukraine in amateur radio broadcasts and sentenced to six years in a penal colony
15 Nov, 2023
Oleg Valeev is a political prisoner
The Crimean resident has been sentenced to 1.5 years in a low-security penal colony for repeatedly ‘discrediting’ Russia’s military
01 Nov, 2023
Aleksey Navalny’s lawyers are political prisoners
Vadim Kobzev, Aleksey Liptser, and Igor Sergunin are accused of membership in an extremist organisation
27 Oct, 2023
Ukrainian activist Serhiy Tsyhypa is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced in occupied Crimea on charges of espionage to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony
04 Oct, 2023
Andrei Boyarshinov from Kazan is a political prisoner
He is being prosecuted for inciting terrorism after discussing anti-war protests on Telegram
27 Sep, 2023
Yevgenia Berkovich and Svetlana Petriychuk are political prisoners
They have been accused of 'justifying terrorism' for staging a play about recruiting women into the banned ISIS
20 Sep, 2023
The six defendants in the Vesna case are political prisoners
A criminal case for alleged involvement in the Vesna movement has been initiated on a number of charges against a group of young men and women, six of whom have been remanded in custody
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