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Persecution of the anti-war movement report. May-September 2024 [1]

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Date: 2024-11

*According to OVD-Info data from 24.05.24 to 20.09.24

In June, Igor Pokusin died in one of the penal colonies in Krasnoyarsk Krai (Siberia). In January, he was sentenced to eight years and one month in a strict regime penal colony on charges of attempting to join the AFU. Previously, the man was employed as a civil aviation pilot, in particular, he had been spraying fertilizers over fields, but in recent years, due to health problems, he worked as a taxi driver.

On July 27, 39-year-old pianist and anti-war activist Pavel Kushnir, who was accused of publicly justifying terrorism due to posting a video on his YouTube channel, died in the Birobidzhan pre-trial detention centre after a dry hunger strike. Before his arrest, Kushnir worked at the Philharmonic, published his anti-war book, and ran a YouTube channel containing anti-fascist manifestos.

After having been tortured in a pretrial detention centre, Kirill Buzmakov, a defendant in an anti-war case, died at his home in Zheleznovodsk (Stavropol Krai, South of European Russia). He was one of the participants in a Telegram chat created by a group of bikers who were later accused of preparing a terrorist attack. During his arrest in the fall of 2022, Buzmakov’s facial bone was broken and he did not receive any medical care for a year and a half. To hide the traces of torture, the man was not taken to the hospital and was promised treatment if he gave the necessary testimony. He received no treatment, the injury had been sustaining inflammation during all this time, and he assumed that the tumor was malignant. ‘At first it was easy to treat, but they let me rot. They denied me treatment for over a year, even the biopsy and histology exam’, he wrote to Vladimir Burmay, a co-defendant. Buzmakov was placed on house arrest only in May 2024, when his condition was already extremely severe. He was operated in civil hospital on May 28 and died on July 20.

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[1] Url: https://en.ovdinfo.org/persecution-anti-war-movement-report-may-september-2024#2

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