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Vladimir Sergeyev was recently transferred from prison to Penal Colony No. 6 in Omsk, a major city in southwestern Siberia. A volunteer who supports him told OVD-Info about this.

After his transfer, Sergeyev did not make any contact, and it later emerged that he was being held in a punishment cell. His mother was refused information about the reason for his placement in the isolation ward.

According to a Penal Colony No. 6 staff member, Sergeyev is expected to spend two to three weeks there. However, convicts cannot be assigned more than 15 days in a punishment cell for one violation.

While Sergeyev is in the punishment cell, he cannot receive parcels or make phone calls to his loved ones. He can currently receive only letters.

You can write to Vladimir Sergeyev via the F-Letter or ZT services or send a paper letter to the following address:

FSIN Penal Colony No. 6, Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, Omsk region, Omsk, 10 let Oktyabrya Street, Building 176, 644009, for Vladimir Andreyevich Sergeyev, born 1985.

The text has been corrected regarding the source of information about the isolation ward.

  • In March 2022, Sergeyev and his acquaintance Anton Zhuchkov were detained in central Moscow on Pushkin Square, where an anti-war rally was being held. According to investigators, they intended to set a police van on fire. After their arrest, the men took methadone in a suicide attempt.
  • They said they did not want to harm anyone and planned to throw a Molotov cocktail into an empty police van. Sergeyev said he was “ashamed of what is happening in Ukraine now.”
  • Initially, the men were charged with hooliganism (part 2 of article 213 of the Russian Criminal Code with the use of part 1 of article 30), but later they were charged under a more serious article for preparing a terrorist act (part 2 of article 205 with the use of part 1 of article 30 of the Criminal Code).
  • In April 2023, the court sentenced Sergeyev to 8 years in prison, and Zhuchkov to 11. The first three years were to be served in prison, with the remainder in a strict-regime penal colony. On appeal, the sentences were reduced by two months for each.