Politician Ilya Yashin, convicted in the case of "fakes" about the army, was transferred to a barrack with strict conditions of detention after being released from the punishment cell. This was reported by the Telegram channel of Yashin's associates, citing his lawyer Mikhail Biryukov.
Biryukov notes that because of the transfer to the barracks, Yashin is even more isolated from the outside world: he is kept separately from other prisoners along with four other "regime violators", he has restrictions on calling his relatives, visiting, and receiving packages. At the same time, the colony administration cancelled the order to assign Yashin to the camp construction team for building barracks, because of his refusal to work in which he was previouslysent to the punishment cell.
In December 2022, the oppositionist was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison. The politician was found guilty of disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army motivated by political hatred (paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code); in May 2023, this sentence was upheld on appeal. In addition to the actual term, Yashin was given a four-year ban on using the Internet after his release.
A criminal case was opened in July 2022 over the stream “They are preparing a tribunal for Putin, hell is meeting Zhirinovsky. Khinshtein is writing denunciations,” in which the politician spoke about the tragedy in Bucha, but Yashin was detained on June 27, while walking in the park. The next day, he was arrested for 15 days under the article on disobeying the police (Article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). While the oppositionist was in a special detention center, a criminal case was opened against him and he was placed in a pre-trial detention center. In July, the politician was added to the register of individuals performing the functions of a “foreign agent.” In early December 2023, Yashin was fined for not marking his Telegram channel as a “foreign agent.”
- Since February 24, 2022 — the first day of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine — residents of Russian cities have been taking part in anti-war protests and talking about the tragedy online every day. Anti-war speeches and statements are becoming grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 750 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protests against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our infographic .
Article 207.3 (Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation) was included in the Criminal Code in March 2022 — this is how the authorities responded to anti-war speeches and statements, as well as the dissemination of information about the war that does not come from official Russian sources. The maximum penalty under the article is 15 years in prison.