Saint Petersburg: political persecution, detentions, searches, trials. Human rights news - 3 | OVD-Info

10.09.2025

Saint Petersburg

A St Petersburg resident is on trial on terrorism-related charges over five comments about Ukraine and the killing of a war correspondent.

02.09.2025

Saint Petersburg

A resident of Leningrad region has been fined for incitement to terrorism over online comments.

29.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

A Ukrainian national has been sentenced to three years in prison for calling for Russian officials to be executed.

28.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

A man with a disability from St Petersburg has been sentenced to three years in prison over a comment on Telegram

26.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

The verdict against 19-year-old Darya Kozyreva from St Petersburg has been upheld in the case concerning a Shevchenko quote and an interview.

23.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

In St Petersburg, a friend of Seda Suleymanova, the kidnapped Chechen woman, has been detained near the Kadyrov Bridge.

22.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

A new criminal case has been initiated against Bogdan Litvin, a defendant in the “Vesna” case who has left Russia.

21.08.2025

Vologda Oblast,

Saint Petersburg

A painter with Russian and Ukrainian citizenship is on trial for comments calling for officials to be executed.

14.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

A case has been opened against a St Petersburg woman for “rehabilitation of Nazism” over a post about the Motherland Calls statue.

08.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

A 19-year-old student from Pskov, a city in north-western Russia, faces a request for a four-year prison sentence over comments in support of the RDK and Azov.

07.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

A 19-year-old employee of a garment factory is on trial for comments in support of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) and the Azov Regiment.

05.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

In St Petersburg, law enforcement officers visited the home of the co-founder of the Conscious Objectors Movement.

04.08.2025

Saint Petersburg

The sentence given is: The sentence for a St Petersburg activist has been reduced in a case concerning anti-war pickets.

28.07.2025

Saint Petersburg

A criminal case has been opened against three St Petersburg residents for “rehabilitating Nazism” over the “desecration” of the “Blockade Tram.”

25.07.2025

Saint Petersburg

A court in St Petersburg has remanded the founder of iGooods in custody for two months in a case concerning donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).

24.07.2025

Saint Petersburg

A citizen of Russia, the United States, and Ukraine has been sentenced to six years in prison over comments in support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

23.07.2025

Saint Petersburg

An employee of KudaGo has been sentenced to three years and six months in a penal colony over a comment about the RDK.

22.07.2025

Saint Petersburg

A jury found the St Petersburg resident, accused of damaging flags and a Z-banner, guilty.

21.07.2025

Saint Petersburg

Supporters of the St Petersburg park have been placed under house arrest

21.07.2025

Saint Petersburg

In St Petersburg, a citizen of Russia, the United States and Ukraine has gone on trial over comments in support of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.