More than 5 thousand people have become involved in politically motivated criminal cases since 2012
The defendants in politically motivated criminal cases over the past 13 years have become 5,038 people. OTD-INFO received such data on the basis of its own database of political persecution , which the project has been conducting since 2012. Right now the persecution of 3,170 people is ongoing, 1,539 of them are currently imprisoned. In just 13 years, the courts issued 3,242 sentences. Only in 0.2% of cases were they justifying - the courts justified only 11 people.