Personal Information
- Birth date
- 8 мар. 1984 г. (42 years old)
- Special circumstances
- activist, dependent child/children, illness
- Notes
- Mathematics and computer science teacher, science fiction writer. Active participant in protests in Khabarovsk Krai. In 2020, he held rallies in Sovetskaya Gavan against the construction of a coal terminal and the arrest of the former governor of the region, Sergey Furgal. He has a young daughter and a pregnant wife on maternity leave who depend on him. In the pre-trial detention center, a lump began to grow on his neck under his lower jaw. Initial biopsies showed that the tumor was benign, surgery was scheduled, but then for some reason they refused it. One of the repeated biopsies showed oncology. The tumor, according to relatives, presses on Zakhar's jaw and he cannot even eat normally, because of which he loses a lot of weight. At the time of the trial, the political prisoner's cancer diagnosis was already known, but the FSIN tried to hide it. He even lost consciousness in the SIZO - they gave him an injection to bring him to his senses. He is not receiving any treatment. Zakhar believes that they are just waiting for him to die in the SIZO. Because when the first studies showed cancer, this information was hidden so that it would not be mentioned in court. In September 2024, Zaripov was diagnosed with salivary gland cancer.
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Zaripov Zakhar Vladimirovich
Case Information
- Region of case initiation:
- Khabarovsk Krai
- Detention date:
- 25 янв. 2023 г.
- Charges:
- Art. 205.2 CC RF Part 2
- Sentence:
- ₽350000 fine
- Estimated release date:
- 29 нояб. 2024 г.
- Case categories:
- Anti-war case, "Extremist" statements, Justification of terrorism, Freedom of speech
- Rosfinmonitoring status:
- Added 27 янв. 2023 г.
Case Description
On January 25, 2023, in the city of Sovetskaya Gavan, Khabarovsk Krai, security forces came to search the local eco-activist Zakhar Zaripov." Only his pregnant wife was at home. Zaripov was arrested at work - he worked as a mathematics teacher in two colonies, strict and special regime, in Sovetskaya Gavan and Vanino. According to law enforcement, at the beginning of March, Zaripov, under the nickname scribble_33, published a post titled 'Hint to Kadyrov' on LiveJournal, in which the author of the publication suggests the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, not to send military personnel from the republic to the war in Ukraine, but instead to seek independence for his region. In the publication, the linguistic examination saw signs of "incitement to an armed seizure of power with the aim of violating the territorial integrity of the Russian Federation. A criminal case was opened against Zaripov for calls to terrorism. January 27, the judge of the Vaninsky District Court of the Khabarovsk Territory Marina Gozha ruled to choose Zaripova's preventive measure in the form of detention. On April 1, 2024, the 1st Eastern Military District Court found Zakhar Zaripov guilty and sentenced him to five years in a general regime penal colony. Also, the court prohibited Zaripov from posting materials on the Internet for 2 years. At the end of November 2024, Zaripova was released from serving her sentence due to her health condition. On November 26, 2024, the Appellate Military Court mitigated the sentence, imposing a new punishment in the form of a fine of 500 thousand rubles. Taking into account the period of detention, the court reduced the amount of punishment to 350 thousand. rubles.
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