In the pre-trial detention center (verdict has not entered into force)

Igor Yakunichev

Birth date

November 4, 1988

Citizenship

Russia

Family

Case

The case of "fakes" about the Russian Armed Forces, discrediting the Russian Armed Forces and public justification of terrorism in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug

Article

Part 1, Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code; Part 2, Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code; Paragraph(s) E Part 2, Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code; Paragraph(s) C Part 2, Article 280.4 of the Criminal Code

Verdict

12 years imprisonment in a general regime colony and a ban on administering websites and channels on the internet for 5 years

A resident of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District, a janitor. In May 2023, a case was brought against him for spreading deliberately false information about the Russian Armed Forces. At that time, his home was searched. During the arrest he was beaten. Then the court chose a preventive measure in the form of a ban on certain actions. In December 2023, a case was opened for public justification of terrorism, and no later than March 2024 - for discrediting the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation. No later than February 2024, the investigation requested that the man be sent to a psychiatric hospital for examination. On 1 April 2024, the man was searched again, after which he was forcibly admitted to a psychiatric hospital. When the case went to court, it became known that a case was also brought against him for calling for activities against the security of the Russian Federation. At the trial, Yakunichev said that in the pre-trial detention centre he was not given medication and was threatened with "reprisals of a sexual nature". On 5 September 2025, the court sentenced him to 12 years in a general regime colony.