Wartime repressions: four months of war

Publication date: July 5, 2022

All data provided in the article is relevant as of June 23, 2022

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The war in Ukraine has been going on for four months. All this time the Russian state has been violently destroying the neighboring country as well as taking repressive actions against its own citizens. Below you can find the key data on repressive actions against people who took the anti-war stance in Russia.

Limitation of the Right to Freedom of Assembly

We are aware of at least 16,309 detentions related to anti-war protests. In addition to detentions at the protests, the authorities also perform «preventive» detentions using the face recognition system. At least 75 people were arrested in May and June prior to announced protests. We are informed about 82 cases where defense lawyers were denied access to police stations to consult the protesters.

Criminal Cases

To pursue people, the government uses various articles of the Russian Criminal code:

• Part 1 of Article 318 (Use of Violence Against a Representative of the Authority);
• Article 213 (Hooliganism);
• Article 214 (Vandalism);
• Item b) of Part 1 of Article 244 (Outrages Upon Bodies of the Deceased and Their Burial Places);
• Item b) of Part 2 of Article 243.4 (Destruction or Damage of Military Burial Sites);
• Part 2 of Article 167 (Willful Destruction or Damage of Property With the Infliction of Considerable Damage);
• Article 329 (Outrages upon the National Emblem of the Russian Federation or the State Flag of the Russian Federation);
• Part 1.1 of Article 212 (Organization of Mass Riots);
• Part 1 of Article 207.3 (Public Dissemination of Deliberately Misleading Information Under the Guise of Credible Reports on the Use of Russia’s Armed Forces) also known as Article on Fakes;
• Article 280.3 (Repeated Discreditation of Russian Armed Forces).