Saint Petersburg: political persecution, detentions, searches, trials. Human rights news - 4 | OVD-Info

10.11.2025

Saint Petersburg

Musicians from the group “StopTime” were detained as they left the detention centre

05.11.2025

Saint Petersburg

A St Petersburg woman accused of spreading “fake news” due to her anti-war posts has been released in the courtroom

01.11.2025

Saint Petersburg

Telegram has blocked the “VChK-OGPU” channel, and its author has been detained by security forces in St Petersburg.

31.10.2025

Saint Petersburg

The organiser of the “NecroComicCon” festival has been detained in St Petersburg.

31.10.2025

Saint Petersburg

A St Petersburg resident has been sentenced to five and a half years in a penal colony for messages in support of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK).

30.10.2025

Saint Petersburg

An elderly man was detained at the Levashovskoe Cemetery in St Petersburg for wearing a pro-Ukrainian badge.

29.10.2025

Leningrad Oblast,

Saint Petersburg

The StopTime drummer was not released after serving their administrative detention term.

27.10.2025

Saint Petersburg

The guitarist and vocalist of “Stoptime” were detained as they left the detention centre.

27.10.2025

Saint Petersburg

A woman from St Petersburg has been sentenced to two years in a penal settlement for a video showing the burning of a passport.

24.10.2025

Saint Petersburg

The court refused to release 19-year-old Egor Balazeykin despite his serious liver disease.

24.10.2025

Saint Petersburg

A new case has been opened against the head of the Free Buryatia Foundation, who was previously convicted under the law on military “fakes.”

17.10.2025

Saint Petersburg

A loader from St Petersburg has been sentenced to eight years over posts on a blocked page

16.10.2025

Saint Petersburg

18-year-old vocalist of the band “Stoptime,” Diana Loginova, has been sentenced to 13 days in jail for performing street concerts.

26.09.2025

Saint Petersburg

A St Petersburg resident has been sentenced to prison over comments about the shelling in Ukraine and “Prigozhin’s trolls”

25.09.2025

Saint Petersburg

In St Petersburg, an activist defending Zarosli Park has been detained.

24.09.2025

Saint Petersburg

The defendant in the case of the Trotskyist cell “Workers’ Power” has been sent for a psychiatric evaluation.

24.09.2025

Saint Petersburg

A 73-year-old woman from St Petersburg was fined for comments about the “Kremlin-Jewish gang.”

22.09.2025

Saint Petersburg

A cleaner from Gazprom has gone on trial over comments in support of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK) and the Freedom of Russia Legion.

18.09.2025

Saint Petersburg

An elderly woman will be tried for a comment calling to “crush the Kremlin-Jewish gang.”

18.09.2025

Saint Petersburg

A school security guard from St Petersburg has been sentenced to five years in prison for a post about Bucha.