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Leonid Melyokhin, an activist from Perm who was deported from the US, has been sentenced to six years in a general-regime penal colony on charges of public justification of terrorism, Mediazona<\/a><\/em> reports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The verdict was handed down by Igor Solomko, a judge of the Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg. The case was heard behind closed doors at the request of prosecutor Mariya Otradnova, who cited an ‘increased terrorist threat’<\/em> in Sverdlovsk Oblast as justification. In addition to the prison term, Leonid Melyokhin was banned from administering websites and channels for two years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leonid Melyokhin applied for political asylum in the US in August 2024. Perm activist Yuriy Bobrov announced<\/a> on his Telegram channel that Leonid had crossed the US\u2013Mexico border. Yuriy Bobrov also posted a photograph showing a mannequin hanging by a rope beneath a bridge, alongside a photograph of Putin and a banner reading: ‘Putin V.V. murderer fascist usurper. The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Fascist to the gallows.’<\/em> According to the post, in December 2023 Leonid wrote to Yuriy: ‘Hi, just before leaving I couldn’t help myself and hung Putin on the Kommunalny Bridge in Perm. Post a photo somewhere, it would be a shame if hardly anyone saw it.’<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In October 2024, Leonid Melyokhin was added<\/a> to the list of ‘terrorists and extremists’ maintained by Rosfinmonitoring<\/em>, Russia’s Federal Financial Monitoring Service<\/em>. He was denied asylum in December 2024. After the refusal was upheld on appeal, he agreed to be deported to Russia. He was detained<\/a> at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo<\/em> airport on 24 July 2025 and transferred to a remand prison the following day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The case reached the court with two counts of public justification of terrorism: an ‘offline’ count (Article 205.2, Part 1 of the Russian Criminal Code) and an ‘online’ count (Part 2). The first appears to stem from hanging the mannequin, the second from an unspecified comment posted online.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-66570","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","news-type-nashi-novosti-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nPerm activist deported from US sentenced to six years on terrorism charges over mannequin of Putin hung from bridge - Political prisoners support. 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