Krasnodar Territory

March 20, 2025 23:48

• Parents claim violation of blogger Vadim Kharchenko*'s rights

  The court has refused to satisfy the appeal complaint lodged by Vadim Kharchenko*, a blogger from the city of Gelendjik, against his arrest under the slander case against an advocate. Vodim’s parents have stated that publications about their son's sentence violate his rights.

March 20, 2025 22:48

• Stand-up comedian apologizes after detention for his joke about disabled person

  During his interrogation, Artemy Ostanin, a stand-up comedian from Yeysk, apologized for his joke about a disabled person without legs.

March 19, 2025 22:40

• Stand-up comedian from Yeysk accused of insulting SMO fighter

  A criminal case was opened against Artemy Ostanin, a stand-up comedian from the city of Yeysk, after his performance in which he joked about a disabled person who had stepped on a mine. Investigators saw his words as an insult to a participant in the special military operation (SMO), but Ostanin himself claims that he was joking about a simple beggar.

March 18, 2025 21:46

• Ecologists treat fine to blogger Ozarovsky as punishment for his activities

  A fine for using obscene language to blogger from Anapa Yuri Ozarovsky followed his criticism of officials regarding the ineffective solution of problems with fuel oil spills.

March 17, 2025 23:11

• Activist complains about pressure after detention in Krasnodar

  In Krasnodar, law enforcers have released Mikhail Matyazh, who demanded, at his solo picket, that those responsible for the environmental disaster in Kuban (Krasnodar Territory) be punished. The activist has reported that he was subjected to pressure after his detention.

March 17, 2025 21:43

• Blogger Kharchenko* to appeal against his verdict

  Vadim Kharchenko*, a blogger from Gelendzhik, who was sentenced to seven years of imprisonment, intends to file an appeal against the verdict.

March 14, 2025 22:48

• Tuapse resident sentenced to forced labour for fakes about Russian Army

  The court has sentenced Ilya Yuzhakov, a resident of the city of Tuapse, to three years of forced labour, finding him guilty of distributing fakes about the Russian Army. After the detention, law enforcers had forced Yuzhakov to record a video with “repentance".

March 13, 2025 22:50

• Blogger Kharchenko* sentenced to seven years in colony

  A court in Gelendjik has found blogger Vadim Kharchenko* guilty of repeated discrediting the Russian Army, slander, insulting believers’ feelings, and calls for extremism, and sentenced him to seven years in penal colony. This was reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of the Krasnodar Territory in its Telegram channel.

March 12, 2025 23:19

• Rights defenders declare believer from Novorossiysk as political prisoner

  The criminal case initiated against Dmitry Mladov, a Jehovah's Witness* from Novorossiysk, violates the right to the freedom of religion, human rights defenders have stated, demanding his release from custody.

February 27, 2025 22:08

• Maykop resident declared prisoner of conscience

  The human rights project "Support for political prisoners. Memorial" has recognized Stanislav Shevchenko, a resident of Maykop (the capital of Adygea), as a political prisoner. He was sentenced to four years in colony for justifying terrorism online.

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