Gennadii Osmak
Gennadii Osmak, born 1969, Occupied territory of Khersonska oblast. Charges: Article 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code (Participation in armed groups against the interests of the Russian Federation including in the…); “Gennadii Osmak's case of involvement in an illegal armed group”. Sentence (August 14, 2024): 3 years 2 months' imprisonment in a strict regime colony. Status: imprisoned; deprived of liberty since May 7, 2025; place of detention: Penal colony No. 6, Vladimir Oblast. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, January 30, 2026.
In brief
Occupied territory of Khersonska oblast · Journalists
Sentence
3 years 2 months
imprisonment in a strict regime colony
Upheld December 11, 2025
Charges
- Article 208 part 2, Russian Criminal Code — Participation in armed groups against the interests of the Russian Federation including in the territory of a foreign state
Latest event
January 30, 2026 — recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, January 30, 2026
Timeline
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 3 years 2 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Persecution begins
Gennadii Osmak's case of involvement in an illegal armed group
Criminal case
Gennadii Osmak's case of involvement in an illegal armed group
- Case number
- 1-264/2024, 1-16/2025
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Facility: Penal colony No. 6, Vladimir Oblast
Address (in Russian, as written on the envelope)
601967, Владимирская область, Ковровский район, пос. Мелехово, ул. Первомайская, д. 261-а, ФКУ «ИК № 6 УФСИН по Владимирской области», Осьмак Геннадий Васильевич, 1969 г.р.
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Full summary
Former editor-in-chief of the "Novii Vizit" website from Henichesk (Kherson region, Ukraine). Detained in March 2024 and taken into custody on charges of participation in an illegal armed group in connection with the Crimean Tatar Volunteer Battalion named after Noman Chelebidzhikhan. On 15 August 2024, Osmak was sentenced to three years and two months in a strict regime colony. On 6 November 2024, the court of appeal cancelled the sentence and returned the case to the first-instance court. Osmak was later re-sentenced, details are unknown, and it appears that it was not the same court that handed down the first sentence. On 7 May 2025, the court of appeal changed the sentence, the details are again unknown.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Ukraine
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