Ivan Kavinov
- Criminal Code
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Anti-war cases
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (strict regime)
- Sentence
- 3 years
- Date of verdict
- 2023-05-26
- Region
- Vladimir Oblast
- City
- Kovrov
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, 6 June 2023
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Case summary
Resident of Kovrov (Vladimir region). In November 2022, taken into custody on the case of dissemination of deliberately false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. On 26 May, 2023, he was sentenced to three years in a strict regime colony. The severity of the punishment is apparently explained by the fact that this is not his first criminal case. In February 2012, Kavinov was sentenced to nine years in a strict regime prison colony in a robbery case, taking into account the punishment for the sentence handed down in September 2010. Presumably, he was released in November 2025.
Others charged under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
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