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Statement by Memorial Human Rights Centre

Pichuzhin was sentenced to two years in a penal colony for pushing a riot police officer; the court ruled Pichuzhin had struck the officer

Emil Ziyadinov has been remanded in custody on terrorist charges despite not being accused of any specific terrorist activity

Maksim Smolnikov was remanded in custody for a comment posted online three years ago about the explosion at the Arkhangelsk FSB headquarters

The Investigative Committee believes the banned Islamic State received a charitable donation of 7,000 roubles

Andrei Pivovarov is being prosecuted because the authorities do not wish to allow opposition candidates to run for the State Duma

Ismet Ibragimov is accused of organising a terrorist cell and preparing to seize power by violence, although there is no evidence of even incitement of violence

Vadim Bektemirov has been charged with membership of a cell of Hizb ut-Tahrir and the recruitment of new members

Statement by Memorial Human Rights Centre

The four residents of Crimea have been remanded in custody under articles of the Russian Criminal Code that deal with terrorism, although none of the four were charged with committing or preparing acts of terrorism

He was charged with organising the activities of the banned Hizb ut-Tahrir al-Islami

Statement by the Human Rights Center Memorial

Aleksandr Shestun has been sentenced to 15 years in a strict-regime penal colony on charges of large-scale fraud, money laundering, illegal business activity and receiving bribes

​Former Interior Minister of Ingushetia Akhmed Pogorov is accused of organising violence against law enforcement officers and of membership of an ‘extremist group.’

Journalists Armen Aramyan, Alla Gutnikova, Vladimir Metyolkin, and Natalya Tyshkevich have been charged with involving minors in protests on the basis of a video that called for an end to intimidation of students and schoolchildren

Andrei Kazimirau was detained in Moscow and remanded in custody on charges brought by the Belarusian authorities of rioting

According to the Investigative Committee, Valery Yevsin pushed a metal barrier towards a police officer

Aleksei Vorsin is being prosecuted under the so-called ‘Dadin’ article of the Russian Criminal Code following the protests of 23 January 2021

Gleb Maryasov, a Krasnoyarsk resident and member of the Libertarian Party, has been charged with blocking roads at a protest rally in support of Aleksei Navalny on 23 January in Moscow

In protest against the verdict in the New Greatness trial, Olga Misik, Igor Basharimov, and Ivan Vorobyovsky splashed paint on the entrance to the Prosecutor General’s Office and put up posters on the fence outside the Lyublino district court in Moscow