The Crimean resident was arrested for putting up ‘Crimea is Ukraine’ posters; explosives were planted on him and he was sentenced to five years in a penal colony
13 Sep, 2024
Andrei Gaevsky is a political prisoner
A court has ordered the Moscow rock music journalist to undergo compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital on a charge of spreading ‘fake news’ about Russia’s army
11 Sep, 2024
Dzhamil Nurakov is a political prisoner
A blogger from Amur Oblast has been sentenced to 18 months in a low-security penal colony for ‘discrediting’ the Russian army
09 Sep, 2024
Daniil Bondarenko is a political prisoner
A military serviceman from Vladivostok has been sentenced to two years in a low-security penal colony for a conversation with colleagues about the bombing of the Crimean Bridge
04 Sep, 2024
Yulia Tishchenko is a political prisoner
A resident of Tula Oblast has been sentenced to four years in a penal colony for a Facebook post about fundraising for the Ukrainian armed forces
12 Aug, 2024
Denis Trufanov is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment in a penal colony for spreading ‘fake news’ about Russia’s army
31 Jul, 2024
Vladimir Yarotsky is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to a term of imprisonment on a charge of desecrating symbols of military glory for a cartoon of Putin
12 Jul, 2024
Andrei Petrauskas is a political prisoner
A crane operator from Krasnoyarsk was sentenced to 10 years’ on a charge of committing an act of terrorism for attempting to set fire to a military recruitment centre
10 Jul, 2024
Artyom Kriger is a political prisoner
The SOTAvision journalist has been charged with ‘participation in an extremist group’ for alleged involvement in Aleksei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation
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
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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
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
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
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’
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
22 Mar, 2024
Mikhail Sharygin is a political prisoner
Бывшего члена нижегородского «Яблока» арестовали по делу о причастности «Штабам Навального»
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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