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On April 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation issued a decision recognizing the “Administrative Center of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Russia” as an extremist organization and liquidated it.

A resident of Irkutsk Oblast with a mental disability has been sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, probably as a result of an FSB provocation

An ethnic Russian Muslim has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony on charges of financing terrorism

An activist from Kaliningrad Oblast has been sentenced to two years in a low-security penal colony for comparing Hero of the Soviet Union Nikita Karatsupa with serial killer Andrei Chikatilo

The Ukrainian national has been sentenced to five years and six months in a general regime penal colony for serving in the Aidar Battalion of the Ukrainian armed forces

An electrician from Nizhny Novgorod has been sentenced to 11 years in a general regime penal colony on charges of justifying terrorism and collusion with a foreign organisation for posts and correspondence on Telegram

The two Ukrainians are being prosecuted under anti-terrorism laws for having served in the Aidar Battalion

The main task of the special services is to intimidate and divide the scientific community. They do not care about anything else

1st Western District Military Court sentenced 67-year-old dissident Alexander Skobov to 16 years in prison

In late February, the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced 28-year-old Kateryna Korovina, a Ukrainian from Luhansk region, to 10 years in prison for “financing extremism and terrorism

Today, Dmitriy Talantov, a 64-year-old lawyer from Izhevsk, was recently sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army and “inciting hatred”.

Mark Kislitsyn, a 27-year-old trans man and volunteer at Centre T, a Russian initiative, has been actively assisting people in crisis in recent years

Mediazona’s Elizaveta Nesterova talks about Alexei Gorinov, a scientist, a city councillor and the first person to receive prison time for spreading “fake news” about the Russian army

Last week, a court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Ukrainian prisoner of war Oleksandr Maksymchuk to 20 years in a maximum security prison.

The number of Russians who find themselves behind bars for opposing authorities who launched the war with Ukraine grows by day.

In Moscow’s Tushinsky District Court, the trial of paediatrician Nadezhda Buyanova nears its conclusion