Pyotr Karamzin

A native of Moscow, born in 1986. He has a university degree and is a lawyer. He was unemployed at the time of his arrest. A defendant in the 'New Greatness' case.

He was detained in the spring of 2018. In the summer of 2020, he was sentenced to six and a half years in a penal colony on charges of creating and participating in an extremist community. His sentence was reduced by three months on appeal. He was released in January 2023 after serving his sentence. The European Court of Human Rights awarded Pyotr €3,300 in compensation in connection with the unjustifiably lengthy pre-trial measure imposed on him.

2020s

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The Final Statement

‘At 34, I still have not learned how to comment on the fantasies of the prosecution.’

Your Honour. At 34, I still have not learned how to comment on the fantasies of the prosecution. I will be extremely brief. I am innocent. I ask you to acquit me.

24 July 2020.
Lyublinsky District Court, Moscow, Russia.
Source: ‘Meduza‘.
For more information: ‘Memorial‘.
Photo: ‘Memorial PZK’.