Astashin Ivan Igorevich

In Moscow, no later than December 2023 (the exact date is unknown), a criminal case was opened for justifying terrorism against Ivan Astashin, a participant in the human rights project "Zone of Solidarity" and a former political prisoner. The reason for the criminal prosecution, according to Astashin's assumption, was a post from May 6, 2023, in his Telegram channel about the war criminal and warmonger Zakhar Prilepin: "Another warmonger and direct participant in the war received a well-deserved bomb - a car belonging to Zakhar Prilepin exploded in Nizhny Novgorod." 1. They write that the "activist" was seriously injured. I recall the words of the "writer" himself (as many media still call Prilepin), said by him in 2019 in an interview with Alexei Pivovarov: "I commanded a combat unit that killed people. In large quantities. Astashin himself is outside of Russia. In December 2023, the Ministry of Internal Affairs put Astashin on the wanted list. On May 23, 2024, the Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow granted the prosecution's motion for the in absentia arrest of the human rights defender.