Gizem Akhan
Gizem Akhan, born 1988, Murmansk Oblast. Charges: Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)); “The case of Arctic Sunrise”. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, October 15, 2013.
In brief
Murmansk Oblast · Murmansk · Environmentalists
Sentence
No information about a verdict.
Charges
- Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Hooliganism (group, with weapons, or against a government official)
Full wording of the charges
according to the investigation, she committed hooliganism
Latest event
November 20, 2013 — preventive measure changed
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, October 15, 2013
Timeline
· Preventive measure changed
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Murmansk Oblast
· Persecution begins
The case of Arctic Sunrise
Criminal case
The case of Arctic Sunrise
Other defendants in the case
- Andrei Allakhverdov — Imprisoned
- Ana Paula Almignana Maciel — Imprisoned
- Faiza Aulahsen — Imprisoned
- Jonathan Beecham — Imprisoned
- Philip Ball — Imprisoned
- Kieron Bryan — Imprisoned
- Marco Weber — Imprisoned
- Christian D'Alessandro — Imprisoned
- Tomasz Dziemianczuk — Imprisoned
- Roman Dolgov — Imprisoned
- Ekaterina Zaspa — Imprisoned
- Dmitry Litvinov — Imprisoned
- Miguel Hernán Pérez Orsi — Imprisoned
- Anthony Perrette — Imprisoned
- Francesco Pisanu — Imprisoned
- Alexander Pohl — Imprisoned
- Colin Russell — Imprisoned
- Ian Rogers — Imprisoned
- Paul Ruzycki — Imprisoned
- Anne Mie Ruer Jensen — Imprisoned
- Sini Saarela — Imprisoned
- Denis Sinyakov — Imprisoned
- Camila Spesiale — Imprisoned
- Mannes Uebels — Imprisoned
- Peter Henry Wilcox — Imprisoned
- Alexandra Harris — Imprisoned
- David John Haussman — Imprisoned
- Frank Hewetson — Imprisoned
- Ruslan Yakushev — Imprisoned
Thematic group: The Arctic Sunrise case
Write a letter
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
195009, г. Санкт-Петербург, ул. Арсенальная, д. 11, ФКУ СИЗО-5 ГУФСИН России по г. Санкт-Петербургу и Ленинградской области ("Арсеналка"), Акхан Гизем, 1988 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
She was detained in connection with a peaceful rally by Greenpeace activists who sailed on the Arctic Sunrise ship to the Prirazlomnaya oil production platform in the Pechora Sea in September 2013 to protest against the development of oil and gas fields on the Arctic shelf; the ship was forcibly stopped and all those on board were detained. She was charged with piracy and the charge was later reclassified to hooliganism. She was in custody from September 2013, was released on bail in November 2013 and was given amnesty in December 2013.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Turkey
Other people prosecuted under Article 213 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.