Daniel Kholodny
Daniel Kholodny, born 1997, Moscow. Charges: Article 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in an extremist community); Article 282.3 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Financing of extremist activities through an official position); “Alexei Navalny and Daniel Kholodny Extremist Community Case”. Sentence (August 4, 2023): 8 years' imprisonment in a general regime colony, ban on publications on the Internet for 4 years. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since September 26, 2023; place of detention: Penal colony No. 4, Tver Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, September 12, 2022.
In brief
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Sentence
8 years
imprisonment in a general regime colony, ban on publications on the Internet for 4 years
Upheld July 21, 2024
Charges
- Article 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in an extremist community
- Article 282.3 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Financing of extremist activities through an official position
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, he was a member of an extremist community, within which he held 'unsanctioned public events, during which the calls for extremist and terrorist activities were made and unlawful acts were committed, resulting in the violation of human and civil rights and freedoms, and harm to public order and public safety'.
Latest event
July 21, 2024 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, September 12, 2022
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 8 years
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Alexei Navalny and Daniel Kholodny Extremist Community Case
Criminal case
Alexei Navalny and Daniel Kholodny Extremist Community Case
Other defendants in the case
- Alexei Navalny — Deceased, 19 years
Thematic group: The case of the extremist community led by Navalny
Write a letter
Facility: Penal colony No. 4, Tver Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
172011, Тверская область, г. Торжок, ул. Старицкая, д. 79, ФКУ «ИК № 4 УФСИН России по Тверской области», Холодный Даниэль, 1997 г.р.
Details and sources
Full summary
Taken into custody on 4 March 2022 as part of the case against an extremist entity brought against Alexei Navalny and his supporters. On August 4, 2023, Kholodny was sentenced to eight years in a general regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
Other people prosecuted under Article 282.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.