Nagavkin remains in solitary confinement until transfer to general regime penal colony

Before transferring him to a general regime penal colony, the management of the Uryupinsk penal colony-settlement decided to keep Igor Nagavkin in a punishment cell. More than 700 reports on violations of the regime have already been filed against him. Nagavkin and his defense were unable to challenge them in court.

As "Kavkazsky Uzel wrote, Igor Nagavkin is serving a two-year sentence in the Uryupinsk penal colony-settlement in a case of disruption of the work of the pretrial detention center. The administration of the colony appealed to the court to change the type of correctional institution ("peregodim") to a general regime colony. The lawyer and human rights activists stated that Nagavkin is being held in torture conditions in the penal colony-settlement. The court accepted for consideration the administrative claim in which Nagavkin is appealing seven penalties imposed on him, and activists have collected almost 26 thousand rubles to pay for the lawyer's services. At the same time, the court denied human rights activist Valentin Bogdan the right to participate as a defense attorney.

On August 13, two court hearings were held regarding Igor Nagavkin. In the morning, in the city court building, Judge Natalya Muravleva considered claims against the management of LIU-23. Nagavkin challenged part of the penalties imposed on him, issued until April 2025. The court refused to satisfy the claims, leaving the penalties in force.

Later that day, an off-site session of the city court was held in the Uryupinsk penal colony-settlement (LIU-23). The case was heard on the application of the management of LIU-23 to change the regime for Igor Nagavkin due to the malicious nature of his violations. The case was considered in the presence of Nagavkin himself, his Moscow lawyer Platon Ananyev, employees of the prosecutor's office and the penal colony-settlement.

The prosecutor reported Igor Nagavkin's involvement in a criminal subculture, the lawyer and the defendant resolutely stated that such statements were unacceptable. The judge did not support the prosecutor's statement, but listened to the arguments of the colony-settlement management about the malicious nature of the violations. She made a decision to assign a temporary regime and transfer him to a general regime colony.

Today, Ananyev told a "Caucasian Knot" correspondent that he had received the reasoning part of the court's verdict and was preparing an appeal, which he intends to submit to the regional court. "The courts have not satisfied all of Igor's claims to challenge the penalties imposed on him. He has accumulated more than 400 such reports. I was shocked by the unpreparedness of the prosecutor, who made a statement about Igor's involvement in a criminal subculture. "It's good that the court listened to our gadflies," said lawyer Ananyev.

The lawyer explained to the correspondent that Nagavkin is in the punishment cell of the penal colony. His transfer to a general regime colony can only be carried out after the refusal to satisfy the appeal in the regional court or the cassation, if such follows after the appellate instance. "The colony employees treat him with respect and consideration. Igor keeps them within the legal framework, constantly reminding them of the requirements of the internal regulations, which many employees seem to be unaware of," said Platon Ananyev.

Igor Nagavkin's sister said that he asked her not to come to the court hearings on August 13. "He was allowed to talk to the lawyer, who said that Igor is waiting for news about the Supreme Court, hoping that a hearing will finally be scheduled there. But so far we know nothing about this,” said Natalya Shishlina.

She also said that Nagavkin had submitted new complaints about the conditions of detention of prisoners in LIU-23 to the prosecutor's office through his lawyer. “Igor wrote that 700 penalties have already been filed against him. We don’t understand why they are torturing him like this,” Shishlina was indignant.

Details about Nagavkin’s case are collected in the “Caucasian Knot” reference material “The Main Thing About Igor Nagavkin’s Arrests and Releases”.