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06 Jan, 2025
Anatoly Burov is a political prisoner
An activist from Vologda has been sentenced to five years in a general-regime penal colony for posting a video of a political prisoner’s last word in court on his Telegram channel
27 Dec, 2024
Dmitry Lyalyaev is a political prisoner
A singer-songwriter from Saratov has been sentenced to twenty-six months in a low-security penal colony for spreading ‘fake news’ about the army, making calls to engage in extremism and displaying prohibited symbols
26 Dec, 2024
Nine people convicted in the What Is to Be Done Telegram channel case are political prisoners
They have been sentenced to terms of up to eight years in a penal colony on charges of inciting hatred and involving others in riots for criticising the authorities and making calls to take part in protests
25 Dec, 2024
Ostap Demchuk is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to 13 years in a strict-regime penal colony for sending money to his country of origin
24 Dec, 2024
Uralbai Abishev is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to 9 years in a strict-regime penal colony on a charge of intending to join the Free Russia Legion
23 Dec, 2024
Ilya Kutsev is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to seven years in a strict-regime penal colony for attempting to join the Free Russia Legion
20 Dec, 2024
Maksim Dmitrienko is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to four years in a strict-regime penal colony for attempting to join the International Legion in Ukraine
18 Dec, 2024
Nariman Derman, Asan Dursunov, and Eldar Kestan are political prisoners
Three Crimean Tatars from Kherson Oblast have been convicted on charges of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion and sentenced to serve three and a half years in a strict regime penal colony.
16 Dec, 2024
Mediazona
Revenge for pacifism and a provocation in a prison hospital. The story of political prisoner Alexei Gorinov
Mediazona’s Elizaveta Nesterova talks about Alexei Gorinov, a scientist, a city councillor and the first person to receive prison time for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army
16 Dec, 2024
Maksim Asriyan is a political prisoner
A nurse from St. Petersburg has been sentenced to eight years in a strict-regime penal colony on charges of attempted terrorism and treason for wanting to set fire to a military recruitment centre
13 Dec, 2024
Sergei Kornilevsky is a political prisoner
A journalist from Birobidzhan has been sentenced to 30 months in a penal colony on a charge justifying terrorism for a comment on Telegram
12 Dec, 2024
Mediazona
Azov POW Oleksandr Maksymchuk sentenced to 20 years recounts torture in Taganrog pre‑trial detention centre
Last week, a court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ukrainian prisoner of war Oleksandr Maksymchuk to 20 years in a maximum security prison.
11 Dec, 2024
Daniil Klyuka is a political prisoner
An art teacher from Lipetsk has been sentenced to 20 years in a strict-regime penal colony for transferring money to his cousin in Ukraine
09 Dec, 2024
Kirill Belousov is a political prisoner
A Saratov resident has been sentenced to five years in a strict-regime penal colony on a charge of attempting to join the Free Russia Legion
06 Dec, 2024
Pavel Korshunov is a political prisoner
An employee of a travel agency from Tolyatti has been sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment on a charge of terrorism for setting fire to the front door of the city council building
04 Dec, 2024
Aleksandr Dimitrenko is a political prisoner
A worker at the Novovoronezh nuclear power plant has been sentenced to 22.5 years’ imprisonment on fabricated charges of sabotage and treason
02 Dec, 2024
Mykola Martyniuk, Kateryna Kuzmenko, Petro Tsarevskiy and Volodymyr Korsunov are political prisoners
Four Ukrainians from Luhansk Oblast, three of whom have disabilities, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for having served in the Aidar Battalion in 2014-2017
29 Nov, 2024
Mediazona
Behind bars in the USSR and in Putin’s Russia. The story of dissident Marxist Alexander Skobov
The number of Russians who find themselves behind bars for opposing authorities who launched the war with Ukraine grows by day.
29 Nov, 2024
Yevgeny Kazantsev is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian prisoner of war with Russian citizenship has been sentenced to 11 years and 11 months of imprisonment
27 Nov, 2024
Vladyslav Plakhotnyk is a political prisoner
A 19-year-old Ukrainian prisoner of war has been sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment for serving in the Azov Brigade
25 Nov, 2024
Andrei Vitovtov is a political prisoner
A businessman from Barnaul has been sentenced to six years in a penal colony on a charge of justifying terrorism for publications on Telegram
20 Nov, 2024
Nikolai Tsymbalyuk is a political prisoner
A resident of Altai Krai was convicted on a charge of terrorism and sentenced to six years in a penal colony for reposting texts by Arkady Babchenko on Telegram
18 Nov, 2024
Nina Slobodchikova is a political prisoner
A programmer from Moscow was convicted on a charge of treason and sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony for transferring $60 to Ukraine
15 Nov, 2024
Aleksandr Nesterenko is a political prisoner
An associate professor at the Bauman Moscow State Technical University faces up to six years’ imprisonment for posting Ukrainian songs on the VK social media site
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