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In an appeal to Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova, Lyudmila Liptser said that her husband, lawyer Alexei Liptser, has been transferred between prisons for over a month. Novaya Gazeta reports.

During the transfer process, Liptser has been held in six different Federal Penitentiary Service facilities; since 5 January, he has been in Krasnoyarsk remand prison No. 1 (Krasnoyarsk is a major city in Siberia).

“The final destination of the transfer is still unknown. Given his health, such transfers during the winter across Eastern Siberia can be described as torture,” the appeal states.

According to Liptser’s wife, he has repeatedly sought medical assistance because his blood pressure has risen to critical levels.

The lawyer previously reported health problems while in detention. In April, his health sharply deteriorated: his blood pressure rose to 200/100, he developed spider veins all over his body, his extremities turned blue, his eyesight worsened, and he began suffering headaches and pain in the kidney and liver areas. After this, he was hospitalised in a prison hospital. Federal Penitentiary Service doctors diagnosed him with hypertension and dyslipidaemia.

The lawyer’s wife is asking Moskalkova to help secure Liptser’s transfer to a colony in Samara Oblast—where she lives with their daughter.

“It is very hard for an adult to cope with this situation, and even harder for a small four-year-old child. Alexei Liptser being so far from where we live (the city of Samara, in the Volga region) effectively deprives our daughter of the chance to see him. The last time she saw her father was on 13 October 2023,” Lyudmila Liptser writes in her appeal.

  • In January 2025, a court sentenced Alexei Liptser to five years in a penal colony on charges of participating in an extremist community (Part 2, Article 282.1 of the Russian Criminal Code). Two more lawyers—Vadim Kobzev and Igor Sergunin—were sentenced in the same case to five years and three and a half years in a colony, respectively.
  • Security forces alleged that the lawyers, who at various times represented politician Alexei Navalny, had been participants in the Anti-Corruption Foundation he founded (recognised as an extremist organisation in 2021). According to the investigation, their involvement consisted of passing information from Navalny, who was imprisoned, to his associates.
  • Kobzev and Liptser did not plead guilty.