Political prisoners: Nikolai Daineko

Daineko Nikolai Dmitrievich , was born on June 2, 1996. A resident of Moscow, a poet, a participant in Mayakovsky Readings, a civil activist, a rock musician.

The prosecution and sentence: in May 2023, the Tver District Court of the city of Moscow was sentenced to 4 years in prison with a sentence in a penal colony on charges of arousing hatred or hostility for political reasons (part 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) and public calls to carry out activities directed against the security of the state (part 3 of article 280.4). In July, the verdict was approved by the Moscow City Court.

Place of serving the sentence : 601122, Vladimir Region, Pokrov, st. Franz Stolverka, 6, FKU IK-2 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Vladimir region.

The history of the criminal case

At the end of September 2022, when mobilization began in Russia to war with Ukraine, Daineko and two more underground poets Artem Kamardin and Yegor Stvba took part in Mayakovsky Readings. During the event, they publicly read the poem “Kill me, a militia”, urging Muscovites not to go to the military enlistment offices.

According to the court, thus poets aroused hatred of “participants in hostilities in the LPR and the DPR”, and also prevented the conduct of mobilization announced in Russia. Figaruntes of business talked about torture and sexualized violence during searches. After the detention, they were in jail.

The Human Rights Center "Memorial" considers the defendants in the case of "Mayakovsky readings" by political concluded.