Vladimir Osipov, a resident of the Moscow region who had been convicted over anti-war posts, has died in a remand prison.

In the Komi Republic, 56-year-old Vladimir Osipov, who had been convicted under the Russian “military fakes” law (point “d” of part 2, article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), has died. This was reported by the human rights project “Prison Lawyer.”

The human rights defenders note that Osipov was being held in a remand prison in Ukhta, where the authorities informed them of his death today. They did not provide the institution’s number. While there is no remand prison in Ukhta, there is a facility operating in remand mode within Penal Colony No. 24. On 5 March, SOTAvision reported that Osipov was in another detention centre in the Komi Republic—in Remand Prison No. 2 in Sosnogorsk.

According to SOTAvision, Osipov suffered from arterial hypertension and urolithiasis (kidney stones).

During the trial, which began in August 2025, he repeatedly requested an ambulance due to high blood pressure and severe headaches. Paramedics visited, but usually found no grounds for hospitalisation and only gave him medicine to lower his blood pressure. Osipov said that this did not help him.

At one of the hearings, Judge Elena Terekhova removed Osipov from the courtroom for the rest of the statements due to his repeated requests for an ambulance. She accused him of abusing his rights.

Following the statements, Osipov was hospitalised under guard, but was later returned to the remand prison. He was unable to deliver his final statement to the court—the judge interpreted his words about feeling unwell as a refusal to speak.

Osipov recounted that while in Remand Prison No. 6 in Kolomna (a city near Moscow), he had not received medical care.

16:01 “Prison Lawyer” clarified to OVD-Info that Osipov died in Remand Prison No. 2 in Sosnogorsk (a town in the Komi Republic, northern Russia).

19 March The cause of Vladimir Osipov’s death was a myocardial infarction (heart attack), reports the “For Human Rights” project.

Osipov’s lawyer, Konstantin Kartashov, was the first to learn of his death, when he arrived at the remand prison to see his client, writes SOTAvision. Federal Penitentiary Service staff told him that Osipov died overnight on 18 March in a civilian hospital, where he had been taken due to a heart attack. Before hospitalisation, his blood pressure reportedly rose above 220.

Neither the remand prison staff nor the hospital staff notified Osipov’s family of his death.

• The case against Vladimir Osipov was initiated over posts on Odnoklassniki (a Russian social network). According to prosecutors, he referred to the invasion of Ukraine as “the shameful war of the shameful president” and wrote that “every criminal has their own signature.” He was also accused over posts alleging that Putin organised the Crimean Bridge explosion and that Russian troops attacked civilian targets in Ukraine and killed children in the Donbas. Osipov did not plead guilty.
• According to his wife and daughter, security forces brutally beat Osipov during a search. “He was covered in blood; we were not allowed to record it in any way. He had a split lip, a bump on his temple, head wounds and other injuries,” his daughter testified in court.
• Osipov had been held in remand since November 2024. On 10 November 2025, the Lyubertsy City Court (in the Moscow region) sentenced him to six and a half years in a general regime penal colony.