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01 Apr, 2024
Evgeniya Mayboroda is a political prisoner
A 72-year-old pensioner has been sentenced to five and a half years’ imprisonment for posts on the VK social media platform
27 Mar, 2024
Daria Kozyreva is a political prisoner
The 18-year-old from St. Petersburg has been arrested on charges of repeated ‘discrediting’ Russia’s army for sticking verses by the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko on a monument to him in the city
22 Mar, 2024
Mikhail Sharygin is a political prisoner
Бывшего члена нижегородского «Яблока» арестовали по делу о причастности «Штабам Навального»
21 Mar, 2024
Mediazona
10 years for chatting. A bank employee from St. Petersburg sentenced for attempting to join the Armed Forces of Ukraine
The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced Vyacheslav Lutor, a bank employee from St. Petersburg, to 10 years in prison
15 Mar, 2024
Nikolai Farafonov is a political prisoner
A blogger from Komi was sentenced to 6 years’ imprisonment on terrorism-related charges for anti-war posts on Telegram
11 Mar, 2024
Dmitry Lyamin is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to eight years in a strict regime penal colony on charges of terrorism for trying to set fire to a military recruitment centre
07 Mar, 2024
Vyacheslav Reznichenko is a political prisoner
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06 Mar, 2024
Human rights defender Oleg Orlov is a political prisoner
Oleg Orlov, one of the founders of Memorial, has been sentenced to two and a half years’ imprisonment for an article in which he opposed the war and called the Putin regime fascist
04 Mar, 2024
Musician Eduard Sharlot is a political prisoner
Его преследуют по статьям об осквернении символов воинской славы, оскорблении чувств верующих и повреждении документов из-за высказываний против российских властей и войны с Украиной
03 Mar, 2024
Mediazona
“Our country turned into an avalanche of grief.” The closing court statement of journalist Roman Ivanov, sentenced to 7 years for anti‑war posts
A court in the Moscow region sentenced RusNews reporter Roman Ivanov to 7 years in a medium security colony for a series of social media posts in which he wrote about the Bucha massacre and other war crimes of the Russian army
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
26 Feb, 2024
Boris Goncharenko and Bogdan Abdurakhmanov are political prisoners
The residents of Krasnodar Krai face up to 20 years’ imprisonment for the attempted arson of a military recruitment centre
19 Feb, 2024
Vyacheslav Malakhov is a political prisoner
A blogger has been remanded in custody for a post on Telegram on charges of ‘repeated’ discrediting of the Russian army
09 Feb, 2024
Ukrainians Volodymyr Udovyka, Volodymyr Linnyk, Viktoriia Tkachenko, and Nataliia Prydatchenko are political prisoners
The former soldiers of the Aidar battalion have been sentenced to terms of up to six years in a strict regime penal colony for ‘participation in a terrorist group’
02 Feb, 2024
Gaziz Davletbaev is a political prisoner
He is being prosecuted on charges of justification of terrorism for a post on the VK social media site
12 Jan, 2024
Ukrainian Azov regiment POWs are political prisoners
24 украинских бойца и служащих судят по статьям о терроризме и попытке насильственного захвата власти
11 Jan, 2024
Anna Aleksandrova is a political prisoner
A hairdresser from St Petersburg is facing up to 10 years in prison for anti-war posts on social media
09 Jan, 2024
Mediazona
“In this drama, I’m here to the final scene.” Theatre director Berkovich and playwright Petriychuk speak at a court hearing on their detention
Zamoskvoretsky District Court in Moscow extended the detention of theatre director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk
27 Dec, 2023
Mediazona
Poets on trial, again. Mayakovsky Readings’ poets face up to 7‑year sentences in Moscow court over anti‑war stance
Today in Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court, severe prison sentences were proposed for Artem Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba, poets who participated in last year’s Mayakovsky Readings
25 Dec, 2023
Dmitry Morozov is a political prisoner
The military serviceman from Sochi has been sentenced to two years and four months in a penal colony for refusing to return to the war in Ukraine
21 Dec, 2023
Andrei Etkeev is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to 5 years of imprisonment for reposts about Russian crimes in Bucha
15 Dec, 2023
Shakhban Abakargadzhiev is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced to forced labour because of a post about killings in Bucha
08 Dec, 2023
Vadim Kharchenko is a political prisoner
A YouTube blogger has been placed under house arrest for speculating on reasons for the Russian military's withdrawal from Kherson in Ukraine
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