Send a postcard to political prisoner and journalist Nika Novak!
On July 15, journalist Nika Novak will spend her birthday in a penal colony
26 May, 2025
Urgent appeal: help Ukrainian prisoners in Russia
We are launching an emergency fundraising campaign to support Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. Your donations will help cover legal fees and provide humanitarian aid.
20 May, 2025
Oleg Savvin is a political prisoner
A Kaliningrad activist faces up to 10 years’ imprisonment for an anti-war online comment made three years ago
19 May, 2025
Nikolai Usov is a political prisoner
An activist from Barnaul has been sentenced to one year and seven months’ compulsory work in custody for repeated ‘discrediting’ of the army
16 May, 2025
Yekaterina Fatyanova is a political prisoner
A Krasnoyarsk activist has been sentenced to two years of compulsory work in custody for ‘discrediting’ the army for publications in a local communist newspaper
15 May, 2025
Gleb Troitsky is a political prisoner
A Moscow resident was remanded in custody on charges of preparing to take part in the activities of a terrorist organisation and to commit treason
14 May, 2025
Liudmyla Honchar, Dmitry Marsov and Timur Magomedov are political prisoners
A Ukrainian national and two Russians have been remanded in custody on charges of making donations to Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation
14 May, 2025
Vyacheslav Kuznetsov is a political prisoner
A resident of Tatarstan was sentenced to nine years in a penal colony on a charge of attempting to join the Free Russia Legion
13 May, 2025
Mikhail Ishchenko is a political prisoner
A warehouse worker has been sentenced to 10 years in a strict regime penal colony for setting fire to the Russian flag and intending to join the Russian Volunteer Corps
12 May, 2025
Arsen and Ablyamet Memetshaev are political prisoners
Two brothers from Ukraine’s Kherson Oblast have been sentenced to five years in a strict regime penal colony on a charge of involvement in the Crimean Tatar Noman Çelebicihan Battalion
07 May, 2025
Mark Lishchynskyi and Volodymyr Tkhor are political prisoners
Two Ukrainians have been sentenced to 18 and five and a half years’ imprisonment for serving in the Azov Regiment
06 May, 2025
Valery Zaitsev and Nikita Turlaev are political prisoners
Two teenagers from Khabarovsk Krai have been convicted on terrorism charges and sentenced to terms of up to 11 years in strict regime penal colonies
06 May, 2025
Kateryna Korovina is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment for donating $11 to the Ukrainian military
05 May, 2025
Vladislav Borisenko and Vasily Gavrilishen are political prisoners
Two 20-year-old residents of Nizhnevartovsk were sentenced to terms of 12 and 13 years in a strict regime penal colony for arson of a military recruitment office
05 May, 2025
Denys Yezhov is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian from Crimea has been sentenced to one year’s imprisonment for shouting ‘Glory to Ukraine! Ukraine will prevail!’
30 Apr, 2025
Piruz Peikrishvili is a political prisoner
A resident of Khabarovsk Krai has been sentenced to six years in a penal colony on charges of repeatedly ‘discrediting’ the Russian army and spreading ‘fake news’
30 Apr, 2025
Ksenia Garina, Olga Korneva, Elvira Saifullina, Viktoria Kutilova, and Zaidulla Rezvanov are political prisoners
The five individuals are being prosecuted on charges of ‘involvement in an extremist group’ and alleged participation in the ANTI PYTKI project
29 Apr, 2025
Ilya Chugaev is a political prisoner
A resident of Syktyvkar has been sentenced to three years in a penal colony for justifying terrorism in comments on YouTube
29 Apr, 2025
Sergei Ulukshonov is a political prisoner
A resident of Krasnoyarsk has been sentenced to four years and eight months in a strict regime penal colony for allegedly planning to join a Ukrainian military unit
28 Apr, 2025
Vitaly Zaitsev is a political prisoner
A resident of Tula was sentenced to two years’ compulsory work in custody for three online comments about Russia’s war against Ukraine
28 Apr, 2025
Aleksandr Glushkin is a political prisoner
A school security guard from St Petersburg is being prosecuted under the ‘fake news’ law for a post on VK about Bucha
26 Apr, 2025
Aleksandr Batsenin is a political prisoner
A resident of Khabarovsk, was sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony for allegedly transferring 780 roubles to support the Russian Volunteer Corps
25 Apr, 2025
Danylo Yefimov is a political prisoner
A student has been sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony for transferring $140 to a Ukrainian charity
24 Apr, 2025
Nazariy Hordieiev is a political prisoner
A Ukrainian has been sentenced to seven and a half years’ imprisonment on a charge of participating in a terrorist group
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