Richard Rose

On 14 April 2022, he was detained by force and during interrogation threatened violence against his wife and the removal of his child. The court later placed Rose in custody. In the pre-trial detention centre, he was pressured to confess, threatening otherwise that his wife would also be placed in detention, his son would be taken to an orphanage, and Rose himself would be transferred to the "offended", and in general his conditions would become unbearable. In addition, the investigator announced that the attorney under the agreement could no longer defend him. Rose refused thereafter to answer any questions about the case or to perform proceedings in the presence of government counsel. At one of the trials, Rose said that during his detention the law enforcers had beaten him severely. Later he wrote to a friend that he was threatened with physical violence in the pre-trial detention centre. He does not receive letters, his letters also do not reach their addressees. He was forbidden to call his family. In August 2023, it was reported that during the search in his cell almost all his books and personal belongings were taken away from him, he is denied phone calls, his letters are only from two addressees, and his own letters are not sent.

On 22 September 2023, Rose was sentenced to eight years in a general security colony. His wife reported that he was not given letters and was also forbidden to make phone calls, despite the court's permission.

In April 2024, it was revealed that Richard Rose was again being pressurised in the remand prison: he was sent to a rubber-walled temporary isolation cell for four days after he resented having notes, poems and a draft of a story taken away from him. There, according to Rose, he was kept naked. He was not allowed to go to the toilet, so he decided to give up food for a while to avoid having to cope with a major need in his cell. Rose was then told he would be placed in a holding cell for six days because he allegedly slept during the day.