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03 Jun, 2024
Yaroslav Shirshikov is a political prisoner
Пиарщика из Екатеринбурга приговорили к 2 годам колонии за пост об убийстве пропагандиста Владлена Татарского
24 May, 2024
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Firecrackers, Telegram chats, and a relay box. Russian‑Ukrainian bartender from Moscow sentenced to 25 years on 10 charges amid torture allegations
the 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced Vladimir Malina, a bartender from Moscow, to 25 years in prison for setting fire to a relay cabinet, with the damage estimated at 9,000 roubles (approximately $100).
22 May, 2024
Mediazona
The train has stopped. How Ilya Podkamenny from Irkutsk got 12 years in jail for several leaflets and putting wire on the rails
Mediazona tells the story of a young man from the Irkutsk region, convicted under six articles of the Russian Criminal Code following an incident on the East Siberian Railway, where no one was injured
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
15 May, 2024
Olga Komleva, Antonina Favorskaya (Kravtsova), Konstantin Gabov, and Sergei Karelin are political prisoners
The journalists stand accused of ‘participation in Navalny's extremist group’ because of their professional work
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
29 Apr, 2024
Mediazona
Russian authorities target foreign media journalists in “extremism” cases linked to Navalny’s foundation
Two more journalists have become defendants in a case involving collaboration with Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF, or FBK in Russian), designated as an “extremist organisation” in Russia.
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
09 Apr, 2024
Sergei Veselov is a political prisoner
He has been prosecuted on charges of 'discrediting' the army, vandalism, insulting a judge, and incitement of terrorism for an anti-war protest and social media posts
05 Apr, 2024
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Russia’s pioneering “LGBT extremism” case. In Orenburg, Pose bar raid and criminal case set precedent for future repression
The Ministry of Justice added the “international LGBT movement” to the list of extremist organisations, allowing criminal cases to be opened against those who, according to security forces, promote “non-traditional values.”
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»
21 Mar, 2024
Mediazona
10 years for chatting. A bank employee from St. Petersburg sentenced for attempting to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced Vyacheslav Lutor, a bank employee from St. Petersburg, to 10 years in prison
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
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