Roman Shport
Roman Shport, born 1997, Moscow. Charges: Article 275.1, Russian Criminal Code (Confidential cooperation with foreigners); “Roman Shport's case of confidential cooperation with foreigners”, opened on November 1, 2024. Sentence (April 28, 2025): 5 years and 6 months' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony; combined with the previous sentence — 6 years'…; previously convicted under Article 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code. Status: at large. Recognition: Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners — recognised as a political prisoner, October 15, 2024.
In brief
Moscow · Moscow · Terrorism cases
Sentence
5 years 6 months
5 years and 6 months' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony; combined with the previous sentence — 6 years' imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
Upheld February 3, 2026
Other verdicts
- January 14, 2024 — 2 years 3 months' imprisonment in an open jail
Charges
- Article 275.1, Russian Criminal Code — Confidential cooperation with foreigners
- Article 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Full wording of the charges
According to Shprot himself, the case was initiated on the basis of correspondence with people who called themselves representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion.
Latest event
October 20, 2026 — case status changed
Recognition by rights defenders
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners, October 15, 2024
- Recognised as a political prisoner — Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
Timeline
· Cassation ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 5 years 6 months
· Persecution ends
· Criminal case opened
Roman Shport's case of confidential cooperation with foreigners
· Recognised as a political prisoner
Memorial: Support for Political Prisoners
· Appeal ruling
upheld
· First-instance verdict
guilty verdict · 2 years 3 months
· Added to the Rosfinmonitoring list of “terrorists and extremists”
· Preventive measure: pre-trial detention
· Persecution begins
The case of the Russian Volunteer Corps flyers put up in Moscow
· Preventive measure: placement in a temporary detention facility
Criminal case
Roman Shport's case of confidential cooperation with foreigners
- Case number
- 2-39/2025
The case of the Russian Volunteer Corps flyers put up in Moscow
Other defendants in the case
- Alexey Isakov — Location unknown, 2 years
Details and sources
Full summary
A resident of Moscow. He was detained on 3 January 2023 and taken into custody on charges of publicly justifying terrorism for putting up the Russian Volunteer Corps flyers. On 15 January 2024, he was sentenced to two years and three months in an open jail.
Later, a second case was opened against Shport for confidential cooperation with foreign nationals, based on his correspondence with individuals who identified themselves as representatives of the Freedom of Russia Legion. According to the young man, this correspondence had also appeared in the first case. On 28 April 2025, Shport was sentenced in the second case to five and a half years in a general regime penal colony.
All fields of the record
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of detention
- Penal colony No. 4, Tver Oblast
- Persecution episodes
- 2
Other people prosecuted under Article 205.2 part 1, Russian Criminal Code
Under the same article, not necessarily in the same case.