{"id":35863,"date":"2025-01-29T17:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T14:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/news\/politzeki-dmitrij-talantov-v-tyurmu-za-post-posle-40-let-v-advokature\/"},"modified":"2025-03-19T20:24:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-19T17:24:12","slug":"politzeki-dmitrij-talantov-v-tyurmu-za-post-posle-40-let-v-advokature","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/memopzk.org\/en\/news\/politzeki-dmitrij-talantov-v-tyurmu-za-post-posle-40-let-v-advokature\/","title":{"rendered":"The anti\u2011war lawyer jailed for a social media post. The story of political prisoner Dmitry Talantov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Art: Maria Tolstova \/ Mediazona<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of Russians who find themselves behind bars for opposing authorities who launched the war with Ukraine grows by day. There are hundreds of political prisoners in the country, and we are trying to tell as much of their stories as possible. Today, Dmitriy Talantov, a 64-year-old lawyer from Izhevsk, was recently sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for spreading \u201cfake news\u201d about the Russian army and \u201cinciting hatred\u201d. After his arrest, the professional community supported him both in Russia, and around the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Talantov started his career back in the 80s, then worked as a judge for several years, but soon returned to the bar, to which he gave almost 40 years of his life, and in 1996 became president of the Udmurt Bar Association.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was detained in June 2022, because two months prior he reposted a publication with a photo of an elderly man on Red Square with a poster: \u201cPeace to Ukraine. To Russia \u2014 sanity, horror, shame, repentance. Putin \u2014 to hell.\u201d He accompanied the repost with the words: \u201cWhat do you expect, after the photos and videos from Kharkiv, Mariupol, Irpen, Bucha???? This is not fascism \u2014 this is extreme Nazi practices! If after this the majority of my compatriots will support the murderer Putin and his gang \u2014 I personally refuse to recognize them as people. People have the quality of compassion. These people are just stupid and evil scum.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following his arrest, more than five hundred representatives of the legal community in Russia signed a letter in defense of Dmitry Talantov. The International Association of Russian Lawyers and the International Bar Association made a public demand for his release. Representatives of the Russian Federal Chamber of Lawyers asked the court to choose a non-custodial measure of restraint for Talantov, but the court found that being out of custody, knowing the intricacies of the law enforcement system, he could continue his criminal activities or go into hiding. That is, the justification for Talantov\u2019s arrest was  literally his profession.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It seems, everyone who could spoke out in support of the lawyer. The UN Special Rapporteur, the European Parliament, Amnesty International, even the British band Pet Shop Boys, whose members wrote that they admired Talantov\u2019s bravery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The prosecutor\u2019s office asked for 12 years in prison. The court gave seven. In his closing statement, Talantov, addressing Judge Metelagin, whom he certainly knows from the trials where he worked as a lawyer, said: \u201cIn Russia, you don\u2019t live that long, especially in prison and especially with my health.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In prison, Dmitry is holding up very well: joking, reading, learning new things. But, of course, it is very hard for him. In his letters he writes that he would definitely like to be included in the next exchange, if Putin is ready to give up more political prisoners. In one of his letters, he wrote, \u201cLight doesn\u2019t need a reason, it just shines. Evil has no chance, it is empty and powerless. Yes, the wind blew out the candle. But we\u2019ll light it again!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can support him by writing a letter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Please write letters in Russian, otherwise the prison censors won’t let it through. You can send letters online via a special services called PrisonMail<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can also write to other political prisoners in English, using the site Lifeline<\/em><\/a>, a project by media and human rights defense group OVD<\/em>–Info<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-35863","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe anti\u2011war lawyer jailed for a social media post. The story of political prisoner Dmitry Talantov - Political prisoners support. 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