Eduard Malyshevsky
- Criminal Code
- Article 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Case category
- Cases related to mass actions
- Verdict
- Imprisonment (general regime)
- Sentence
- 2 years 9 months
- Date of verdict
- 2019-12-08
- Region
- Moscow
- City
- Moscow
Recognition by human rights organisations
- Recognised as a political prisonerby Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, 8 January 2020
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Case summary
Detained on 27 July 2019 during the dispersal of a rally for fair elections in Moscow. On 29 July he was arrested for 13 days under the administrative article on petty hooliganism. On 2 September it became known that he was in a temporary detention centre and taken into custody on charges of using violence against a representative of the authorities.
On 9 December, he was sentenced to three years in a general regime colony. On 29 January 2020, the appellate court reduced the term by three months. In October 2021, it became known that due to alleged multiple violations of the regime Malyshevsky was transferred from the general regime colony to a single cell-type room on the territory of the strict regime colony. He was released on 14 March 2022.
Others charged under Article 318 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
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