October 20, 2026, 2:41 PMRSSRU

Igor Basharimov

At largeChecked October 18, 2026

Igor Basharimov, born 1993, Moscow. Charges: Article 214 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Vandalism committed by a group of people, or motivated by hatred or animosity); “The "federal booth" case”. Sentence (May 11, 2021): 1 year 9 months of restriction of freedom with a ban on leaving home from 23:00 to 05:00. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as persecuted on political grounds, May 10, 2021.

In brief

Moscow · Moscow

Sentence

1 year 9 months of restriction of freedom with a ban on leaving home from 23:00 to 05:00

Verdict May 11, 2021

Upheld May 25, 2022

Charges

Full wording of the charges

According to investigators, he prepared sanitary pads, four paper posters and red markers to commit the crime; rented from Yandex LLC. Drive" car sharing car "Skoda"; on the night of August 8, 2020, he arrived at the building of the Lyublinsky District Court and proceeded to the metal fence enclosing this building; after that, “being... in a public place in front of the building of the Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow,... grossly violating public order, wanting to contrast his illegal behavior with the norms of public morality and aesthetics, expressing obvious disrespect for society, cynically neglecting the rules of conduct in public places, with the aim of desecration of the said building, placed opposite the gate on the metal fence enclosing the above building, ... pre-prepared sanitary pads and four paper posters containing obscene, obscene and insulting inscriptions addressed to the Lyublinsky District Court of Moscow as a single federal centralized system of bodies carrying out on behalf of the Russian Federation of Justice, thereby disfiguring and desecrating the appearance of the said building, after which he fled the scene”; then arrived at the building of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the center of Moscow, after which he approached the checkpoint at the General Prosecutor's Office, located on B. Dmitrovka, and “placed pre-prepared sanitary pads and paper to the right of the entrance door under the sign “Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation” an AZ format poster containing obscene, indecent and offensive inscriptions addressed to the prosecutor's office of the Russian Federation, as well as on the wall of the building to the right of the entrance, some of the red coloring liquid was poured from a pre-prepared bottle, disfiguring the appearance of the said building, thereby desecrating and spoiling by joint actions him, causing material damage to the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation in the amount of 3,464 rubles (~34USD), after which he fled the scene.

Latest event

June 1, 2023 — persecution ends

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Persecution ends

  2. · Cassation ruling

    upheld

  3. · First-instance verdict

    guilty verdict

  4. · Recognised as persecuted on political grounds

    Memorial Human Rights Centre

  5. · Preventive measure: ban on certain activities

  6. · Persecution begins

    The "federal booth" case

Criminal case

The "federal booth" case

Case number
01-0002/369/2021

Other defendants in the case

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

On August 9, 2020, he was detained, the next day the court chose a preventive measure against him in the form of a ban on certain actions. On May 11, 2021, he was sentenced to a year and nine months of restriction of freedom.

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Citizenship
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Sources (1)

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