19:09, 13 August 2025

Darya Polyudova was attacked in the colony

Daria Polyudova. Photo: https://memohrc.org/

Krasnodar activist Darya Polyudova is facing pressure in a Kostroma colony; she was attacked by another prisoner.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel" wrote, in March 2024, Kuban activistDarya Polyudova, serving a sentence on an extremism charge, was transferred from a colony in Kabardino-Balkaria to a pretrial detention center in Volgograd. Several residents of Volgograd, at the request of the activist's mother, gave Polyudova food. In May of the same year, Polyudovawas delivered to a colony in Kostroma and transferred to strict conditions of detention.

In May 2021, a Moscow court sentenced Polyudova to six years in prison, finding that she justified the activities of Chechen field commanders Shamil Basayev and Aslan Maskhadov. Later, a new case was opened against the activist: according to the FSB, she created a movement with the aim of publicly justifying terrorism and extremism. In December 2022, the court sentenced Polyudova to nine years in prison. On October 19, 2023, the Supreme Court upheld this sentence.

The pressure on political prisoner Darya Polyudova has increased in the Kostroma colony. According to her lawyer and Darya's relatives, verbal threats escalated into physical violence: one of the prisoners attacked Polyudova and tried to strangle her.

The lawyer is going to visit Darya in the colony, the human rights project "OVD-Info"* reported.

On August 1, the collection of funds to pay for the lawyer's visits to Darya Polyudova in the colony was completed; a total of 80 thousand rubles were collected. The activist is under pressure in the colony, so the lawyer's visits are necessary. The defender helps with appeals against unlawful reprimands and other problems, the Open Space project reported on the same day.

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