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Five years for a father of five over a comment about the Russian Volunteer Corps, 28 years for a Colombian paramedic who served in the Ukrainian armed forces
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05 Jun, 2026
Denis Bushtet is a political prisoner
A cossack from Primorsky krai was sentenced to 13 years for treason for telling a Ukrainian volunteer about volunteers who had gone to war
04 Jun, 2026
Nikolai Gaiduk is a political prisoner
A German citizen of Ukrainian origin was detained while entering Kaliningrad Region, allegedly framed with explosives, tortured, and accused of a terrorist attack
03 Jun, 2026
Georgy Paramoshin and Kirill Nikulenkov are political prisoners
Students from the Moscow Oblast and Arkhangelsk were sentenced to 8 and 3.5 years in prison for publications on the Telegram channel 'NATSDEM'
01 Jun, 2026
Vsevolod Kulikov is a political prisoner
A student from Lipetsk was sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for allegedly preparing to set fire to an airfield runway and forwarding the contact details of the Freedom of Russia Legion
29 May, 2026
Treason case against shop assistant, and charges of explosives possession, treason, and calls for terrorism against retired serviceman
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28 May, 2026
Artyom Basyrov is a political prisoner
A resident of Kemerovo was sentenced to 12 years and 3 months as a result of provocations: he allegedly wanted to join the Freedom of Russia Legion and spoke about it while in pre-trial detention.
26 May, 2026
Gennady Artyomenko is a political prisoner
A military pensioner from Nizhny Novgorod Region was sentenced to 18 years for anti-war leaflets and correspondence with the Ukrainian movement Atesh
25 May, 2026
Teenagers on trial on terrorism charges, a Ukrainian lawyer forced to dig trenches, and a preacher
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22 May, 2026
Yevhen Ilchenko is a political prisoner
In July 2022, a lawyer from occupied Melitopol was abducted by Russian security forces. He has remained behind bars ever since without any known formal charges
20 May, 2026
Dmitry Arkhipov is a political prisoner
A janitor from the Omsk Oblast was sentenced to 11 years in prison on charges of financing and justifying terrorism over an Instagram post
19 May, 2026
Sergei Torop (Vissarion), Vladimir Vedernikov, and Vadim Redkin are political prisoners
Leaders of the 'Church of the Last Testament' were sentenced to up to 12 years in a strict-regime colony for allegedly causing psychological harm to members of their community
18 May, 2026
Sabotage Case Against a Syrian War Veteran and Treason Charges Against Entrepreneurs of Ukrainian Origin
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15 May, 2026
Aleksandr Titov is a political prisoner
A 66-year-old resident of the Leningrad Oblast was sentenced to five and a half years in prison for comments posted in the Telegram channel of a Ukrainian publicist
13 May, 2026
Tatiana Arshinova is a political prisoner
A civic activist from Nizhny Novgorod faces up to 25 years in prison for posts about Aleksei Navalny and anti-war slogans
12 May, 2026
Five Years for ‘They Are Heroes’ and Fourteen for a 400-Rouble Transfer
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07 May, 2026
Valentin Zemlyansky, Anton Yartsev, and Aleksandr Shcheglov are political prisoners
Moscow residents convicted over business cards with a QR code for donations to the Ukrainian Armed Forces left in a club. They say they intended to expose the venue’s owners
05 May, 2026
Mykola Petrovskyi and Serhii Kotov are political prisoners
Ukrainians from Kherson Oblast sentenced to 16 and 15 years in a maximum-security penal colony for sharing open-source information about Russian troops
30 Apr, 2026
Prison sentences for comments about Ildar Dadin and online banners in support of Ukraine
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27 Apr, 2026
Twelve years for ‘treason’ against a foreign state, and thirteen for a bus stop inscription
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20 Apr, 2026
Five years for advising the FSB on how to bomb the Crimean Bridge, 13 years for mother’s correspondence with her son, and 16 for assisting Ukrainian forces
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13 Apr, 2026
Cases against Melitopol journalists, a monk’s sentence, and prosecutions over alleged links to the ‘Freedom of Russia’ Legion
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03 Apr, 2026
From forced psychiatric treatment to long prison terms: new political prisoners
Among those recognised as political prisoners are individuals sentenced to lengthy prison terms, or subjected to compulsory psychiatric treatment, for comments, small financial transfers, or alleged links to Ukrainian units
27 Mar, 2026
Repressions for alleged assistance to Ukrainian intelligence, sentences for public statements, and prosecutions over calls to release prisoners
Read our overview of these and other cases of political prisoners we have recognised this week
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