Oleg Navalny
Oleg Navalny, born 1983, Moscow. Charges: Article 236 part 1, Russian Criminal Code (Violation of sanitary and epidemiological regulations (resulting in a mass disease or posing such a…); Article 236 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code (Incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological regulations (resulting in a mass illness or…); “Oleg Navalny's case”, opened on January 27, 2021. Sentence (August 5, 2021): one year suspended sentence; previously convicted under Article 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code; Article 174.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code. Status: not in Russia. Recognition: Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, February 24, 2021; Memorial Human Rights Centre — recognised as a political prisoner, February 9, 2021.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Artists · Cases related to mass actions
Sentence
1 year
one year suspended sentence
Upheld July 18, 2022
Other verdicts
- December 29, 2014 — sentences: three and a half years' imprisonment in a general regime colony
Charges
- Article 236 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Violation of sanitary and epidemiological regulations (resulting in a mass disease or posing such a threat)
- Article 236 part 1 applied with Article 33 part 4, Russian Criminal Code — Incitement to violate sanitary and epidemiological regulations (resulting in a mass illness or posing such a threat)
- Article 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
- Article 174.1 part 2, Russian Criminal Code
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, incited the violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules in connection with the rally in support of Alexei Navalny on 23 January 2021.
Latest event
July 18, 2022 — cassation
The court upheld the verdict.
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, February 24, 2021
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, February 9, 2021
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial Human Rights Centre, January 19, 2015
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners, January 16, 2015
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 1 year
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Preventive measure: house arrest
· Criminal case opened
Oleg Navalny's case
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
TDF No. 1 of the Main Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow
· Persecution ends
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial Human Rights Centre
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Union of Solidarity with Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years 6 months
· Preventive measure: travel ban (written undertaking)
· Persecution begins
Oleg Navalny's case on fraud and money laundering
Criminal case
Oleg Navalny's case
Thematic group: Sanitary case; Palace case
Oleg Navalny's case on fraud and money laundering
Thematic group: The Yves Rocher case
Details and sources
Full summary
Alexei Navalny's younger brother, entrepreneur, artist, and at the time of his prosecution, an employee of FSUE Russian Post. On 20 December 2012, along with his brother, he became a defendant in a case of fraud and money laundering. A personal recognizance was chosen as a measure of restriction. On 11 April 2014, the case was transferred to the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow. On 28 April, the case was returned to the prosecutor's office. On 29 July, the trial resumed. On 30 December 2014, Oleg Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years in a penal colony and taken into custody. He was released on 29 June 2018.
On 27 January 2021, Oleg Navalny was detained as part of a criminal case on violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules, his flat was searched. On 29 January, the court sent Navalny under house arrest. Later he was charged with incitement to violate the rules. On 7 April, a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions was chosen. On 6 August, he was given one year' suspended sentence.
In January 2022, the criminal-executive inspectorate demanded Navalny's suspended sentence to be replaced with a real one due to his alleged failure to register. He was then put on a federal wanted list. On 18 February, he was sentenced to a year in a strict regime colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Sources (4)
Other people prosecuted under Article 159 part 4, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.