Pavel Pekpaev
Pavel Pekpaev, born 1976, Mari El. Charges: Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code (Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government…); “Pavel Pekpayev's case about deliberately false information the RF Armed Forces”, opened on January 1, 2023. Sentence (August 4, 2023): 5 years 6 months' deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony; previously convicted under Article 354.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, September 7, 2023.
In brief
Mari El · Yoshkar-Ola · Bloggers · Anti-war cases
Sentence
5 years 6 months
deprivation of liberty in a general regime penal colony
Upheld October 9, 2023
Other verdicts
- July 2, 2020 — Fine
Charges
- Article 354.1 part 1, Russian Criminal Code — Denial of facts, justification of crimes, and dissemination of false information about the Second World War
- Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code — Dissemination of false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, government agencies, or mercenaries (based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred or enmity, or on grounds of hatred or enmity in relation to any social group)
Full wording of the charges
According to the investigation, he publicly denied the facts established by the verdict of the International Military Tribunal for the trial and punishment of the main war criminals of the European Axis countries, approval of the crimes established by the said verdict, and dissemination of deliberately false information about the activities of the USSR during the Second World War by posting the following materials on his personal page: - a video file with the title "POBEDOBESIE (must be watched in Russia)" (POBEDOBESIE - Victory madness); - the text of the article, beginning with the words "I'll tell you: can we do it again?" and ending with the words "... anything has never led to anything good"; - a video file labelled "We can do it again..."; - a video file with the title "St. George's Ribbon: Why Russians were forced to wear fascist signs"; - video file with the title "Veteran tells the truth about the war and Stalin"; - a video file with the title "Was there a victory"; - a video file with the title "Where grandfathers fought and why the Banderites shot them in the back"; - the text of the article, beginning with the words: "The artificial blockade of Leningrad: the myth is debunked, it was favourable to the criminal USSR authorities..." and ending with the words: "This means that the authorities of our country have the experience of inhuman anti-peoples decisions and many years of lying to their citizens"; - the text of the article: "A fascinating fact about the civil war of 1941-1945", "The 1941-45 war was an internal civil conflict in the USSR. The Germans simply supported Vlasov's army and Krasnov's Cossacks"; - video file with the title "This day we were bringing closer as we could ..."; - video file with the title "Wild scream in the Kremlin. The German magazine put to shame Moscow paper-makers"; - the text of the article, beginning with the words "victories m.i. victories - ..." and ending with the words "...in substantial legal and technical readiness and linguistic revision", containing false information about the activities of the USSR during World War II; - a video file with the title "The Truth about Lend-Lisa, which is hidden in Russia"; - an audio recording with the title "Mikhail Elizarov - SS lyric"; as well as posting a comment in the VKontakte social network group, beginning with the words: "Is he threatening? Some pathetic endeavours..." and ending with the words "You shouldn't have helped, oh you shouldn't have...".
Latest event
October 20, 2026 — case status changed
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, September 7, 2023
Timeline
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years 6 months
· Criminal case opened
Pavel Pekpayev's case about deliberately false information the RF Armed Forces
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict
· First-instance verdict
upheld
· Persecution begins
Pavel Pekpaev's case on the rehabilitation of Nazism
Criminal case
Pavel Pekpayev's case about deliberately false information the RF Armed Forces
- Case number
- 1-483/2023
Thematic group: Anti-war case
Pavel Pekpaev's case on the rehabilitation of Nazism
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Yoshkar-Ola. A case of justification of Nazism was initiated against him because of several videos and other materials published at Vkontakte, Pekpaev was released on personal recognizance. On 12 May 2020 the court dismissed the case, the court of appellate instance approved the decision, but on 22 April 2021 the court of cassation cancelled it and returned the case into prosecutor's office. On 1 October Pekpaev was sentenced to 180 thousand roubles fine.
On 4 August 2023 Pekpaev was sentenced to 5 years and six months in general regime penal colony in a case of public dissemination of deliberately false information about the use of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 207.3 part 2 item d, Russian Criminal Code
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