Denis Shaban
- Criminal Code
- Article 148 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
- Verdict
- Fine
- Date of verdict
- 2025-07-23
- Region
- Vologda Oblast
Case summary
A resident of the Vologda region, Shaban worked as an assistant to an electric locomotive driver. He was prosecuted for “insulting the feelings of believers” after posting a comment on VKontakte in response to news about Volgograd student Nikita Zhuravel, who had been convicted of burning the Koran and subsequently beaten by the son of the head of Chechnya. Shaban’s comment read: “Shall we all burn thousands of Korans? All together we will survive.”
Describing his detention, Shaban said: “As if I were a hardened criminal they detained me — with OMON, face to the floor — and took me 50 kilometres from home. They bent me in such a way that I later had to go on sick leave with back pain. First they took me to Centre ‘E’, then to the Cherepovets Investigative Committee, where they searched through my phone.”
On 23 July 2025, the court fined him 30,000 roubles.
Others charged under Article 148 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
What we write about political persecution
Recent material from this section. This is section navigation — the articles below are not about this person.
- 2026-09-04Georgia court clears extradition of Fugal ally to Russia
- 2026-09-04Russia labels Novaya Gazeta a 'foreign agent,' adds over 100 affiliated names
- 2026-09-04Russian court sentences hostage-takers from Rostov detention center to up to 29 years
- 2026-09-04Two Yabloko Duma candidates detained in Moscow two days before vote
- 2026-09-03British man says Russian police beat him, jumped on his head at station in Yessentuki
Source: this person’s record in the OVD-Info political persecution database
Published under CC BY 3.0. The criteria for treating a person as politically persecuted belong to OVD-Info; FACTUM relays their assessment and makes none of its own.
OVD-Info has been designated an «extremist» organisation in Russia — by decision of the Russian authorities, like other independent human rights and media projects.