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17 Feb, 2025
Dmitry Zimin is a political prisoner
A medical student from Buryatia has been sentenced to eight years in a strict regime penal colony
14 Feb, 2025
Iryna Navalna is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian has been sentenced to eight years in a penal colony on a charge of preparing to carry out a terrorist attack in Mariupol
13 Feb, 2025
Mykola Holubov is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian has been convicted on a charge of justifying terrorism and sentenced to five years in a penal colony for online comments in support of Ukrainian soldiers
12 Feb, 2025
Aleksei Sivokhin is a political prisoner
A Russian who fought in the Donbas on the side of Ukraine and gained Ukrainian citizenship has been sentenced to 10 years in a strict regime penal colony
11 Feb, 2025
Nariman Mezhmedinov is a political prisoner
A Crimean Tatar has been convicted on a charge of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion and sentenced to eight years in a strict regime penal colony
07 Feb, 2025
Ilkin Melikov is a political prisoner
Ilkin Melikov and five other Muslims from Nizhnevartovsk are being prosecuted on charges of terrorism and trafficking in arms and drugs, based on dubious allegations of involvement in ISIS
06 Feb, 2025
Ivan Ladchenko is a political prisoner
A St. Petersburg musician has been sentenced to 11 years in a strict regime penal colony for putting up flyers about the Russian Volunteer Corps and the Free Russia Legion
05 Feb, 2025
Konstantin Ogoltsov is a political prisoner
A Chelyabinsk activist has been sentenced to six years’ imprisonment for two short comments on the VK social media site
03 Feb, 2025
Ivan Tishchenko and Valery Ledkov are political prisoners
Tishchenko has been sentenced to four years' imprisonment while Ledkov awaits trial under house arrest for making donations to Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation
31 Jan, 2025
Four Jehovah’s Witnesses from Chelyabinsk Oblast are political prisoners
On the charge of extremism, IgorSmolnikov, OlegPreobrazhensky, ArtyomRepin and EvgenyCherepanov have been taken into custody
31 Jan, 2025
Denis Popov is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to eight years in a strict-regime penal colony for attempting to set fire to a military recruitment centre and posting a comment on social media
30 Jan, 2025
Yaroslav Sukhanov is a political prisoner
Жителя Краснодарского края приговорили к 6,5 годам строгого режима по обвинению в намерении присоединиться к ВСУ
29 Jan, 2025
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The anti‑war lawyer jailed for a social media post. The story of political prisoner Dmitry Talantov
Today, Dmitriy Talantov, a 64-year-old lawyer from Izhevsk, was recently sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army and “inciting hatred”.
29 Jan, 2025
Ivan Kolosov is a political prisoner
A paramedic from Moscow has been sentenced to nearly nine years in a strict-regime penal colony for allegedly planning to join the Free Russia Legion
27 Jan, 2025
Vitaly Ryazanov is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian citizen from Kherson Oblast has been sentenced to five years in a strict-regime penal colony on a charge of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion
24 Jan, 2025
Pavel Guguev is a political prisoner
Guguev left the penal colony where he was serving a sentence to join the Russian army, was captured, and gave an interview to Ukrainian journalists. Now he has been charged with ‘collusion’ with foreigners
23 Jan, 2025
Igor Yakunichev is a political prisoner
The resident of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug faces 15 years' imprisonment on four criminal charges for publishing anti-war videos
22 Jan, 2025
Maksim Voronovsky is a political prisoner
A Navalny supporter from Magnitogorsk was charged with calling for people to engage in terrorism and subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment
21 Jan, 2025
Mediazona
A women’s prison and the withdrawal of hormone therapy. The story of trans activist Mark Kislitsyn, sentenced to 12 years for transferring $10 to Ukraine
Mark Kislitsyn, a 27-year-old trans man and volunteer at Centre T, a Russian initiative, has been actively assisting people in crisis in recent years
20 Jan, 2025
Vera Nikolaeva and Anastasiya Lysenkova are political prisoners
Two nurses who wrote ‘GUR’ on the Zhukov monument in Moscow have been sentenced to one year of compulsory work in custody
17 Jan, 2025
Vyacheslav Lutor is a political prisoner
A St. Petersburg resident has been sentenced to 10 years in a strict-regime penal colony on a charge of intending to join the Free Russia Legion
16 Jan, 2025
Aleksandr Neustroev is a political prisoner
A construction worker from Yekaterinburg has been sentenced to three years in a low-security penal colony for making a comment to a boy wearing a hat with the symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
15 Jan, 2025
Aleksei and Vladimir Settarov are political prisoners
They have been sentenced to up to five and a half years’ imprisonment in a strict-regime penal colony on charges of participating in the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion
13 Jan, 2025
Mikhail Antonenko, Gennady Buslov, Natalya Minenkova, Mikhail Sinitsyn, Zhu Yun, and Oksana Shchetkina are political prisoners
Six Falun Gong adherents are being prosecuted under the unconstitutional article of the Russian Criminal Code on ‘undesirable organisations’
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