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On July 7, Sona Olopova was released on parole from the Samara correctional center, where she had been serving a sentence of forced labor since May 2024.

The list is being updated as new information becomes available

On July 15, journalist Nika Novak will spend her birthday in a penal colony

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.

Due to the aggressive war against Ukraine, repression in Russia is becoming more and more widespread and brutal, but it becomes increasingly difficult to collect information about it

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