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03 Jul, 2024
Mikhail Balabanov is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to four and a half years’ imprisonment on a charge of preparing a terrorist attack for allegedly making a Molotov cocktail on the instructions of a ‘Ukrainian intelligence officer’
01 Jul, 2024
Ukrainian prisoners of war from the Aidar battalion are political prisoners
Eighteen Ukrainian military service personnel, including two women, are being tried on charges of participating in a terrorist organisation and attempted violent seizure of power
25 Jun, 2024
Mediazona
Political prisoner at 15. Arseny Turbin’s journey from pro‑Ukraine student to imprisoned “terrorist”
Mediazona examines how the investigation built its case against Arseny.
24 Jun, 2024
Sergei Udaltsov is a political prisoner
The politician has been charged with justifying terrorism for publicly supporting members of a Marxist circle on trial in Ufa
20 Jun, 2024
Alyona Agafonova is a political prisoner
The blogger was sentenced to 10 months of compulsory work for making a video in which she ‘tickled’ the Motherland Calls statue in Volgograd
20 Jun, 2024
Arseny Turbin is a political prisoner
A 15-year-old high school student has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for distributing leaflets criticising Putin
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
24 May, 2024
Mediazona
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
16 May, 2024
Yuri Kokhovets is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to five years’ compulsory work on a charge of spreading ‘fakes news’ about Russia’s army for criticising the war in a vox pop
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
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