Memorial": Since the beginning of the war, at least 69 political prisoners have died in prison. Since February 2022, at least 69 victims of political repression, including 6 women, have died in places of detention, during searches, under house arrest or shortly after release. This is according to the report of the project "Support for political prisoners. memory". The most deaths occurred in 2024 (26); In ten months of 2026, 16 people have already died. At least 29 people died from diseases and lack of medical care, 10 of them in 2026. Judges and employees of the Federal Correctional Service often call inmate health complaints "sham," the report's authors write. At least 20 people died from torture and beatings. 12 of them are citizens of Ukraine, most of them residents of the occupied territories and prisoners of war, as well as a Polish citizen, Krzysztof Galus, who was kidnapped in Ukraine. Among them is the journalist Victoria Roshchyna, on whose body, after returning to Ukraine, many traces of torture and the absence of several organs were found. 10 people allegedly committed suicide. Human rights activists do not rule out that some were victims of torture or were killed. The causes of eight other deaths are unknown. Separately, Zikrhon highlights the death of pianist Pavel Kushnir after a two-month hunger strike in the Birobidzhan pre-trial detention center and the death of Alexei Navalny in Moshva, which human rights activists consider a deliberate murder. The youngest victims, Ukrainians Daniel Dakhov and Pavel Grimak from Melitopol, were 18 years old, the oldest, Professor Valery Mitko, 81 years old. Subscribe to ASTRA on Instagram, Facebook, X in Russian, X in English, WhatsApp and DeltaChat, TikTok.

Memorial": Since the beginning of the war, at least 69 political prisoners have died in prison. Since February 2022, at least 69 victims of political repression, including 6 women, have died in places of detention, during searches, under house arrest or shortly after release. This is according to the report of the project "Support for political prisoners. memory". The most deaths occurred in 2024 (26); In ten months of 2026, 16 people have already died. At least 29 people died from diseases and lack of medical care, 10 of them in 2026. Judges and employees of the Federal Correctional Service often call inmate health complaints "sham," the report's authors write. At least 20 people died from torture and beatings. 12 of them are citizens of Ukraine, most of them residents of the occupied territories and prisoners of war, as well as a Polish citizen, Krzysztof Galus, who was kidnapped in Ukraine. Among them is the journalist Victoria Roshchyna, on whose body, after returning to Ukraine, many traces of torture and the absence of several organs were found. 10 people allegedly committed suicide. Human rights activists do not rule out that some were victims of torture or were killed. The causes of eight other deaths are unknown. Separately, Zikrhon highlights the death of pianist Pavel Kushnir after a two-month hunger strike in the Birobidzhan pre-trial detention center and the death of Alexei Navalny in Moshva, which human rights activists consider a deliberate murder. The youngest victims, Ukrainians Daniel Dakhov and Pavel Grimak from Melitopol, were 18 years old, the oldest, Professor Valery Mitko, 81 years old. Subscribe to ASTRA on Instagram, Facebook, X in Russian, X in English, WhatsApp and DeltaChat, TikTok.