Ivan Kudryashov

He spent part of his childhood in an orphanage. He was a school champion in draughts and learnt chess in the pre-trial detention centre. He worked as a mechanic at a carriage repair plant. In the spring of 2022 he held several anti-war actions alone. He was fined because of profanity on posters in support of the war. After the announcement of mobilisation, Kudryashov received a summons. On the same day he was detained with violence and accused of preparing to set fire to the military enlistment office.

Kudryashov told his lawyer that during his detention officers of the Tver FSS planted incendiary mixtures on him and that he was repeatedly tortured in order to get the password to his smartphone and force him to sign a confession.

The Investigative Committee refused to open a criminal case on Kudryashov's torture claim. On 14 June 2023, Kudryashov went on hunger strike because he was not given vegetarian food, his complaints were not forwarded to the prosecutor's office, and the head of the pre-trial detention facility refused to meet with him.

On 20 June, Kudryashov was sentenced to six years in a strict regime colony.

On 18 July Kudryashov stopped his hunger strike.

On 27 July it became known that Kudryashov was sent to hospital. Later, lawyer Maxim Kharchenko said that Kudryashov was in the psychiatric ward in an immobilised state. According to him, the escorts said that Kudryashov was tied up as he could harm others and himself. The convict does not respond to speech. "Solidarity Zone" suggests that Kudryashov could have been subjected to punitive psychiatry methods as revenge by the head of SIZO-1 Tver, his namesake Alexei Kudryashov. The lawyer claims that on 18 July, the first day of his client's release from hunger strike, he did not notice any changes in his mental state.

"Solidarity Zone" also stated that the FSIN officers could have forged Ivan Kudryashov's letters: the human rights activists received a reply from the convict, but the handwriting in it does not match the handwriting in the previous letters. "Kudryashov writes that he had a nervous breakdown and broke a tap and a sink in two cells, after which he was sent to hospital, where he is being treated and is on the mend. "We believe that in this way the hospital management is trying to mislead the public and extinguish the scandal," writes Solidarity Zone.

On 8 August, the lawyer said that Kudryashov had recovered.

On 29 September 2023, the court of appeal reduced the sentence to four years and ten months.