The Crimean resident has been sentenced to two years in a penal colony for urinating on Russia’s pro-war installation of the letters V and Z
11 Apr, 2024
Dmitry Bogmut is a political prisoner
A lab technician at the St. Petersburg Institute of Nuclear Physics has been remanded in custody on charges of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army
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»
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
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
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
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’
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
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
22 Nov, 2023
Matvei Yuferov is a political prisoner
Matvei Yuferov was sentenced to four years in prison on charges of rehabilitating Nazism for urinating on a display that contained a veteran’s portrait
21 Nov, 2023
Kirill Akimov is a political prisoner
He was convicted of ‘public incitement of terrorism’ for statements he made against the war on Ukraine in amateur radio broadcasts and sentenced to six years in a penal colony
01 Nov, 2023
Aleksey Navalny’s lawyers are political prisoners
Vadim Kobzev, Aleksey Liptser, and Igor Sergunin are accused of membership in an extremist organisation
27 Oct, 2023
Ukrainian activist Serhiy Tsyhypa is a political prisoner
He has been sentenced in occupied Crimea on charges of espionage to 13 years in a strict regime penal colony
20 Sep, 2023
The six defendants in the Vesna case are political prisoners
A criminal case for alleged involvement in the Vesna movement has been initiated on a number of charges against a group of young men and women, six of whom have been remanded in custody
19 Sep, 2023
Former Chechen police officer Yasin Khalidov is a political prisoner
He was detained while trying to leave Russia and taken to Chechnya for passing information about the Chechen security services to human rights activists
12 Sep, 2023
We consider streamer Anna Bazhutova (YokoBovich) a political prisoner
She was arrested for posting videos about Russian war crimes in Bucha
22 Aug, 2023
Parvina Abuzarova is a political prisoner
An Instagram blogger from Kazan was sentenced to 3 years in prison on charges of calling for desertion
21 Aug, 2023
We consider Saveliy Frolov a political prisoner
He was arrested on the border with Georgia and charged under the article on preparation for treason
11 Aug, 2023
We consider Aleksei Filyugin a political prisoner
A farmer from the Kurgan region was sent to a remand centre for ‘discrediting’ the Russian army and spreading ‘fakes’ about it
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