Yegor Shtovba, sentenced to five and a half years in prison for reciting poetry, left the Moscow Butyrka pre-trial detention center. This is stated in the response to the letter sent to Shtovbe. The answer was published in the support channel for those involved in the Mayakovsky case.
It is not yet known where exactly the young man was transferred.
On December 28, 2023, Artem Kamardin and Yegor Shtovbewere sentenced to seven and five and a half years in prison, respectively. They were found guilty of inciting hatred (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code) and of public calls for action against the security of the state (Part 3 of Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code).
A criminal case for inciting hatred against three participants in the Mayakov Readings, Artem Kamardin, Yegor Shtovba and Nikolai Daineko, was opened in September 2022. The occasion was the poem “Kill me, militiaman,” which Kamardin read at the monument to Mayakovsky. The investigation believes that the poet with this poem aroused hatred towards “participants in hostilities in the LPR and DPR.” First, the young people were charged with paragraph “a” of Article 282 of the Criminal Code, which was then replaced with paragraph “c” - instead of the threat of violence, they were charged with actions by an organized group.
In March, all three were charged with a new charge - under the article on calls for activities directed against the security of the state, committed by the group. According to investigators, Kamardin in verse called for “not to take” summonses from the hands of representatives of military registration and enlistment offices, “not to sign” documents confirming receipt of summonses and “not to appear” on them. Shtovbu and Daineko are considered Kamardin’s “accomplices” because they “repeated Kamardin’s work out loud and raised their hands up.”
Nikolai Dainekoentered into a pre-trial agreement with the investigation. His case was separated into separate proceedings. As part of a pre-trial agreement during the investigation phase, the suspect or accused usually agrees to assist with the investigation in exchange for a reduced sentence. In May, the defendant was sentenced to 4 years in a general regime colony. After an appeal, the sentence was upheld.
14:25 Artem Kamardin was also transferred from the Butyrka pre-trial detention center. This was also written about in the support channel for those involved in the Mayakovsky case.
January 30 The whereabouts of Artem Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba have been unknown for 12 days. According to FSIN employees, the poets could have been sent to pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Perm, but lawyers and relatives of the convicts do not confirm this.
“We fear for the health of the guys who were sent to the stage without basic necessities, water and food,” added the support group for the defendants.
On February 2, Artem Kamardin’s wife received a letter from him, writes a support group for convicts.
Kamardin spent several days in pre-trial detention center No. 2 in the Vologda region, but he was again transported to an unknown direction.
On February 5, Artem Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba spent several days in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Kirov. Shtovba spoke about this in a letter to his relatives, which was published by a support group for those involved in the Mayakovsky case.
On February 2, the poets were still in Kirov, but later they were sent back to the prison camp. As Shtovba writes, he and Kamardin should be taken to Perm.
On February 6, Artem Kamardin and Egor Shtovba are in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Perm. This is reported by the telegram channel of their support group.
On February 7, Kamardin and Shtovba were transferred to pre-trial detention center-4 in the city of Kudymkar (Perm region). Their support group reports this on Telegram.
On March 5, Artyom Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba were transported from pre-trial detention center-4 in the city of Kudymkar in an unknown direction. This was reported by the defendants' support group.
On March 13, Artem Kamardin’s wife Alexandra received a letter from her husband: Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba were in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Perm, the support group reports .
In the letter, the prisoner said that on March 11 they were being sent further along the stage. The current location of Kamardin and Shtovba is unknown.
On March 14, Artyom Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba were taken to Kirov. They will stay there for a week. This was reported by the defendants' support group.
Kamardin also said that in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Perm he was kept in a special block, “as the most dangerous.” “They say they used to hold suicide bombers there. Atmospheric place. It's very cold, very damp. The view from the window is simply wonderful: the local prison yard is purely Half-Life 2, the recognizable landscape of City 17 - a reservation city for people under the rule of an alien dictatorship,” he wrote in a letter to his wife Alexandra Popova.
On March 20, Shtovba and Kamardin left the Kirov pre-trial detention center, the support channel reports .
It is not yet known where the young people will be sent next.
On March 22, Artyom Kamardin and Yegor Shtovba were brought back to the capital’s pre-trial detention center-2 “Butyrka,” reports the political prisoners support group.
You can support those convicted by sending a letter through the Zonatelecom service or by regular mail to the following address:
127055, Moscow, st. Novoslobodskaya, 45, FKU SIZO-2 Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for Moscow
Kamardin Artem Yuryevich, born October 10, 1990
Shtovba Egor Olegovich, born December 26, 2000.
On March 30, Kamardin wrote to his wife that he was in Butyrka in an overcrowded cell - 26 arrested for 22 places. “We have to take turns sleeping,” he added. In addition, he is the only non-smoker in the room, and his eyes hurt from the poor lighting. An excerpt from his letter was published by a support group for those involved in the Mayakovsky case.
The headline was changed after information appeared that Kamardin also left the pre-trial detention center. The title was later changed after Kamardin and Shtovba were brought back to Butyrka.
- In January, the Moscow City Court rejected Artem Kamardin’s complaint about torture during a search. On September 26, security forcescame to Kamardin’s home. The young man was beaten and subjected to sexualized violence. His girlfriend Alexandra Popova also said that she was tortured.
- “Mayakov Readings” are street poetry evenings that were held on the last Sunday of every month from April to October. In Moscow, the action was organized near the monument to Vladimir Mayakovsky on Triumfalnaya Square. The participants declared the readings on September 25 “anti-mobilization.”