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Hennadii Osmak and Nariman Abliazov are political prisoners
A journalist and a businessman, both residents of Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast, have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment of up to three and a half years in a strict regime penal colony on charges of participating in the Çelebicihan Battalion
30 Jan, 2026
The Kherson Nine are political prisoners
Nine Ukrainians were abducted during the Russian occupation of Kherson and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment on charges of terrorism
29 Jan, 2026
Mikhail Loshchinin is a political prisoner
A citizen of both Russia and Belgium who travelled to Russia to visit his father was sentenced to 16 years’ imprisonment on charges of treason for transferring €30 to an acquaintance in Ukraine
28 Jan, 2026
Artyom Skakalin and Anatoly Poplavsky are political prisoners
A caretaker from Tambov and an employee of an oil and gas company from Moscow have been convicted for allegedly attempting to join the Free Russia Legion
27 Jan, 2026
Sergei Salazkin, Yaroslav Bykov and Yegor Gulyaev are political prisoners
Three individuals from Orenburg, Moscow and St Petersburg are being prosecuted under the law on ‘fake news’ about the Russian army
26 Jan, 2026
Leonid Melyokhin is a political prisoner
A political activist from Perm, denied asylum in the United States and deported to Russia, has been remanded in custody on a charge of justifying terrorism
23 Jan, 2026
Vladislav Timofeev is a political prisoner
A 19-year-old from Pskov was sentenced to two and a half years in a penal colony for comments on Telegram about the war, the Azov Battalion and the Russian Volunteer Corps
22 Jan, 2026
Leonid Kats is a political prisoner
A mathematician has been charged with treason for donating to a Ukrainian charity
21 Jan, 2026
Leonid Yudin, Andrei Morozov and Vladislav Sevostyanikhin are political prisoners
Three young people - from Buryatia, Leningrad Oblast and Moscow - have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment ranging from 10 to 13 years on charges of attempting to join the Free Russia Legion
20 Jan, 2026
Olga Ogarkova is a political prisoner
A resident of Chita has been sentenced to five years in a penal colony on a charge of issuing calls to engage in terrorism for emotional comments on Telegram
19 Jan, 2026
Andrei Glukhov is a political prisoner
A 20-year-old student with cerebral palsy has been sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony for transferring 1,450 roubles to Ukraine to support a petition calling for an end to the war
16 Jan, 2026
Danil Likhanov is a political prisoner
A man from Novosibirsk has been sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for donating to the Russian Volunteer Corps and for reposting a call to donate to this unit
15 Jan, 2026
Aleksei Sobolev is a political prisoner
A resident of Komi was sentenced to six years in a penal colony for comments made online; his father, who went to fight in the war in the hope of helping his son, was killed
14 Jan, 2026
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
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