Kazantsev Vladimir Nikolaevich

Kazantsev Vladimir Nikolaevich was born on 2 July 1972, lived in Chelyabinsk. He was a human rights and environmental activist.

On 19 October 2022 he was sentenced under part 3 (‘Large-scale fraud’) and part 1 of Article 30, Article 4 (‘Preparation for fraud by an organised group or on a particularly large scale’) of article 159 of the Criminal Code to 4 years in a general regime colony; Chelyabinsk activists and journalists claimed that his prosecution was political.

He was taken into custody on 19 October 2022, before that he was under house arrest, later released on personal recognisance (an obligation not to leave the city).

He died in Penal Colony №11 of the State Penitentiary Service of the Chelyabinsk Region on 17 December 2024 due to a cardiovascular disease.