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Every month we fund legal help for political prisoners. We are raising €2800 to cover one month costs of legal aid to political prisoners.

Zum Jahrestag des Austauschs am 1. August 2024 – zur Unterstützung politischer Gefangener in Russland, Belarus und der Ukraine.

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

A resident of Novoaltaisk has been sentenced to five years in a strict regime penal colony for attempting to join the Ukrainian armed forces

A former security services officer has been sentenced in Kirov to five years in a penal colony for two comments on a local online forum

A stand-up comedian faces up to six years’ imprisonment for making a joke about a person with a disability

Two teenagers from Nizhny Novgorod have been sentenced to two and a half years in a penal colony for a video about their teachers and Russia’s war against Ukraine

An Omsk pastor was remanded in custody for organising the activities of a church designated as ‘undesirable’ for supporting Ukraine

Four Ukrainian prisoners of war have been sentenced to lengthy terms of imprisonment for serving in the Azov Regiment

A Crimean Tatar has been sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony on a charge of involvement in the Noman Çelebicihan Battalion

A Moscow Oblast resident is being persecuted on a charge of spreading ‘fake news’ about the Russian army

A Moscow-based director has been sentenced to eight years in a penal colony for posts on VK criticising the Russian authorities and supporting Ukraine

A former military medical officer has been sentenced to 18 years in a strict regime penal colony for serving in the Donbas-Ukraine Battalion

An electrical engineer from Belgorod is being prosecuted for making calls to engage in terrorism for reposting a video about military operations involving the Free Russia Legion

A Chelyabinsk resident has been sentenced to six years in a penal colony on a charge of justifying terrorism for an online comment

An elderly Spanish man who moved to Kherson and engaged in volunteer work was abducted by Russian security forces in 2022

A car mechanic from Sverdlovsk Oblast has been sentenced to 12 years in a strict regime penal colony for transferring 100 Polish zlotys to a charity

A 70-year-old veteran of the Tatar national movement has been remanded in custody for posts on VK criticising the war against Ukraine

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

A former village head from Crimea has been sentenced to five years’ imprisonment for alleged involvement in the Çelebicihan Battalion

A St Petersburg resident has been sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for allegedly painting anti-war graffiti on the orders of the Free Russia Legion and intending to fight on the side of Ukraine

Seven Ukrainians have been sentenced to long prison terms for serving in the Aidar Battalion

A Ukrainian prisoner of war has been sentenced to 18 years’ imprisonment on a charge of being a member of the Azov military unit.