Ilya Baburin sentenced to 25 years’ imprisonment

The 2nd Eastern military district court at Novosibirsk has sentenced 24-year-old Ilya Baburin, in the case of an arson of a military recruitment centre that did not happen. Baburin was found guilty under an array of Articles, including “treason against the state” and “attempted organisation of a terrorist act”. The court sentenced Ilya to 25 years’ imprisonment, of which the first five years must be served in prison, and the remaining 20 in a strict regime colony.

Ilya pleaded not guilty to the charges brought against him. His lawyer, Vasily Dubkov, called on the court to acquit his client.

✊ Solidarity zone provides full support to Ilya Baburin. In the first place, we need to complete the fundraiser to pay his lawyer. You can support this via the link.

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On May 25 we invite you to the 'Solidarity zone' event in Leipzig in support of political prisoners in Russia. It will be held in the framework of the exhibition 'freedom is a verb' by Alla Gutnikova.

The program:
▪️presentation of Solidarity zone
▪️speeches by ex-political prisoners
▪️poetry reading
▪️donation box
▪️prisoners' treats: chifir and koryak cake

Chifir is an exceptionally strong tea, brewed in Soviet and post-Soviet prisons. Koryak is a DIY prison cake made of crushed cookies mixed with condensed milk (vegan).

Solidarity zone is a horizontal organization supporting those arrested for anti-war actions in Russia. We currently support 19 prisoners by finding lawyers, arranging parcels, and sharing information about their cases. We have no permanent source of funding, therefore your donations are of critical importance.

Event will start with a presentation from Solidarity zone, followed by the speeches of ex-political prisoners.

Alla Gutnikova and Natasha Tyshkevich spent a year under house arrest for their journalist work together with two colleagues from DOXA Magazine, Armen Aramyan and Vladimir Metelkin.

Lev Skoryakin was persecuted for an action near the FSB building against political repressions. He fled to Kyrgyzstan, was detained there and put under arrest, then released, but a month later he was kidnapped by the Russian special forces and tortured at the Moscow airport after extradition.

Denis Kozak was persecuted for a comment on social media. He fled to Kazakhstan, but was detained there and spent a year in a Kazakh pre-trial detention center on an extradition request from Russia.

All four of them are on Russia’s federal wanted list. With the help of human rights activists they all managed to escape to Germany and live here with a humanitarian visa and Reiseausweis für Ausländer.

Finally, poets from Russia with a migration background will read their texts. Among them are Alla Gutnikova, Inna Krasnoper, Karina Papp, Nikita Sungatov, Roman Osminkin, and Natasha Tyshkevich.

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Mikhail Balabanov sentenced to 4.5 years

The 21 year old from Kazan Mikhail Balabanov has been sentenced in the southern district military court. The young man was found guilty of preparing an "act of terrorism" and was given a custodial sentence of 4 years and 6 months. He will have to spend two of those years in a prison and the rest in a strict regime prison colony. Meanwhile, the court reduced the seriousness of part of the charge against him, not finding a "group of people".

Balabanov was accused of conspiracy with an unspecified agent of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine and of preparing an arson attack on a military recruitment office in Nevinnomyssk. Mikhail does not accept the charge against him, and his defence believes that it was FSB agents who corresponded with him. The security forces may have come after the young man after he called the Ukrainian project to help those wishing to surrender, "I want to live" — Mikhail wanted to avoid being sent to the front.

Solidarity zone is supporting Mikhail Balabanov

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