October 20, 2026, 2:41 PMRSSRU

Jonathan Beecham

ImprisonedChecked October 18, 2026

Jonathan Beecham, born 1962, 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

Full wording of the charges

according to the investigation, carried out hooliganism

Latest event

December 25, 2013 — persecution ends

Checked October 18, 2026 · no changes since October 15

Recognition by rights defenders

Timeline

  1. · Persecution ends

  2. · Preventive measure changed

  3. · Recognised as a political prisoner

    Memorial Human Rights Centre

  4. · Preventive measure: pre-trial detention

    Pre-trial Detention Centre №1 (SIZO-1) of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russian Federation for the Murmansk Oblast

  5. · Persecution begins

    The case of Arctic Sunrise

Criminal case

The case of Arctic Sunrise

Other defendants in the case

Thematic group: The Arctic Sunrise case

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Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)

196655, Ленинградская область, г. Колпино, Колпинская ул., д. 9, ФКУ СИЗО-1 УФСИН России по Санкт-Петербургу и Ленинградской области "Кресты", Бичем Джонатан, 1962 г.р.

Address checked October 18, 2026

Details and sources

Full summary

According to OVD-Info

detained in connection with a peaceful action by Greenpeace activists who in September 2013 sailed on the Arctic Sunrise ship to the Prirazlomnaya oil production platform in the Pechora Sea 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. Charged with piracy, the charge was later reclassified to hooliganism. Detained since September 2013, released on bail in November 2013. Amnestied in December 2013

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