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The politician has been charged with justifying terrorism for publicly supporting members of a Marxist circle on trial in Ufa
10 Jun, 2024
Lenur Khalilov is a political prisoner
A Crimean Tatar from Kherson Oblast in Ukraine has been sentenced to 3.5 years in a strict-regime penal colony on a charge of involvement in the Noman Çelebicihan volunteer battalion
07 Jun, 2024
Sergei Arbuzov (Burkevich) is a political prisoner
A Vologda taxi driver has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for comments he made five years ago about the suicide bombing by the anarchist Mikhail Zhlobitsky
03 Jun, 2024
Yaroslav Shirshikov is a political prisoner
Пиарщика из Екатеринбурга приговорили к 2 годам колонии за пост об убийстве пропагандиста Владлена Татарского
22 May, 2024
Fail Alsynov is a political prisoner
Prominent Bashkir environmental activist sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment for a speech at an anti-extractivist rally
13 May, 2024
Mikhail Feldman is a political prisoner
A civil rights activist from Kaliningrad has been sentenced to two years’ imprisonment for posts criticising Russia’s war against Ukraine
06 May, 2024
Anastasia Ulybysheva is a political prisoner
The student faces up to seven years’ imprisonment for posts about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge in a private Telegram channel
02 May, 2024
Arseny Glebov is a political prisoner
He is accused of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army and of intending to join an ‘illegal armed group’ for allegedly willing to join Ukraine’s armed forces
24 Apr, 2024
Robert Shonov is a political prisoner
The Russian who formerly worked at the US consulate in Vladivostok has been remanded in custody on charges of ‘colluding with a foreign power’
23 Apr, 2024
Aleksandr Davydenko is a political prisoner
A Jehovah's Witness from the Krasnodar Krai was sent to a pretrial detention center in an extremism case
22 Apr, 2024
Aleksandr Klimov, Diana Kamilyanova and Vyacheslav Khasanov are political prisoners
The owner and employees of a nightclub have been arrested in Russia’s first criminal case on charges of involvement in the ‘international LGBT public movement.’
16 Apr, 2024
Aleksandr Tyurenko is a political prisoner
The Crimean resident has been sentenced to two years in a penal colony for urinating on Russia’s pro-war installation of the letters V and Z
12 Apr, 2024
Dmitry Aritkulov is a political prisoner
The Chukotka resident has been sentenced to five and a half years’ imprisonment for posts criticising the Russian military and authorities
11 Apr, 2024
Dmitry Bogmut is a political prisoner
A lab technician at the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics has been remanded in custody on charges of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army
01 Apr, 2024
Evgeniya Mayboroda is a political prisoner
A 72-year-old pensioner has been sentenced to five and a half years’ imprisonment for posts on the VK social media platform
27 Mar, 2024
Daria Kozyreva is a political prisoner
The 18-year-old from St. Petersburg has been arrested on charges of repeated ‘discrediting’ Russia’s army for sticking verses by the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko on a monument to him in the city
22 Mar, 2024
Mikhail Sharygin is a political prisoner
Бывшего члена нижегородского «Яблока» арестовали по делу о причастности «Штабам Навального»
15 Mar, 2024
Nikolai Farafonov is a political prisoner
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
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