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Daniil Senko, Ruslan Orlovsky and Ilya Kholopov are political prisoners
Three men have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from six to 12 years on charges of treason and membership of a terrorist organisation for planning to fight on the side of Ukraine
12 Jan, 2026
Three more people convicted in the Baymak prosecution are political prisoners
Participants in a public rally in support of opposition figure Fail Alsynov have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment
30 Dec, 2025
Yevgeny Telegin and Andrei Yermolenkov are political prisoners
Residents of Moscow and Kursk Oblasts were sentenced to terms of nine and a half years and six years in a strict regime penal colony for attempting to join the Free Russia Legion
29 Dec, 2025
Mikhail Lazakovich is a political prisoner
A student from Tver has been sentenced to nine and a half years in a strict regime penal colony for setting fire to a military recruitment centre
26 Dec, 2025
Vladislav Apestin is a political prisoner
A father of four from Moscow Oblast has been sentenced to 4 years’ imprisonment on charges of promoting terrorism for posting a video by the Free Russia Legion on the VK social media site
25 Dec, 2025
Yevgeny Nikiforov, Sergei Borisov and Sergei Chunosov are political prisoners
Residents of Tver, Volgograd and Amur Oblasts have been convicted of treason for allegedly intending to join the Ukrainian armed forces
24 Dec, 2025
Vladimir Belkovich is a political prisoner
A college student from Irkutsk Oblast has been sentenced to 13 years’ imprisonment for putting up flyers on the instructions of the Free Russia Legion
23 Dec, 2025
Irakli Khufenia is a political prisoner
The Georgian opposition activist was detained upon entering Russia and sentenced to two years in a penal colony on charges of justifying terrorism
22 Dec, 2025
Rafael Mamedov is a political prisoner
A student from Murmansk has been sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment on charges of participating in a terrorist organisation and of high treason for administering the ‘Free Lapland’ Telegram channel
19 Dec, 2025
Sergei Zheleznyakov is a political prisoner
An IT specialist from Kaliningrad has been sentenced to 12 years’ imprisonment for allegedly participating in Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, whose leader was received by Putin in the Kremlin
18 Dec, 2025
Kamil Kasimov is a political prisoner
A soldier who refused to fight in Ukraine and left for Kazakhstan was illegally returned to Russia and sentenced to six years in a strict regime penal colony
17 Dec, 2025
Olha Hulchak, Olena Penza and Yuliia Stanika are political prisoners
Three Ukrainian women from Kherson Oblast have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment of up to 12 years six months on charges of financing the Ukrainian armed forces
16 Dec, 2025
Vakhtangi Rogava is a political prisoner
A St Petersburg actor has been sentenced to three years and six months in a penal colony on a charge of justifying terrorism for a comment on Telegram
15 Dec, 2025
Dmitry Levin is a political prisoner
A native of Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast, sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment on charges of treason and participation in a terrorist organisation, was most likely a victim of a sting operation by Russian intelligence agencies
12 Dec, 2025
Andrei Alekseev, Maksim Vasyuk and Mikhail Golik are political prisoners
Residents of Yakutia, Moscow Oblast and Veliky Novgorod have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment of up to 12 years for attempting to set fire to military recruitment centres and railway signal boxes
11 Dec, 2025
Bohdan Haviada, Ruslan Kozmenko, Olena Ipatova and Leonid Zinchenko are political prisoners
Former Ukrainian military service personnel have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment for serving in the Aidar Battalion
10 Dec, 2025
Varvara Volkova is a political prisoner
A flight attendant from Moscow Oblast has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for posts about the war in a village chat group
09 Dec, 2025
Natalya Ignatyeva and Marina Tokareva are political prisoners
The Khabarovsk activists have been convicted for participation in the Volya party
08 Dec, 2025
Oleg Tretyakov is a political prisoner
An anti-war blogger who returned to Russia from Kazakhstan to be with his sick daughter has been sentenced to six years in a penal colony for posts about the explosion on the Crimean Bridge
05 Dec, 2025
Svetlana Savelyeva, Surlana Yenchinova, and Vera Sidorkina are political prisoners
Three women, residents of Irkutsk Oblast, Gorno-Altaisk, and Yoshkar-Ola, have been charged with wanting to join the Ukrainian armed forces
04 Dec, 2025
Ivan Kryukov is a political prisoner
A father of two has been sentenced to 11 years’ imprisonment on charges of participation in the Free Russia Legion for defacing a ballot paper and sharing a link to a website
03 Dec, 2025
Nikolai Zyuzev is a political prisoner
A philosopher holding Russian and Canadian citizenship has been remanded in custody on a charge of collusion with foreign nationals
02 Dec, 2025
Nadezhda Rossinskaya is a political prisoner
A volunteer from Belgorod, also known as Nadin Geisler, has been sentenced to 22 years in a penal colony for providing assistance to Ukrainians in the occupied territories
01 Dec, 2025
Vasily Pavlov is a political prisoner
A PhD student from Belgorod has been sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment for distributing leaflets from the Free Russia Legion and passing on to that organisation publicly available information about a military unit
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