Urgent Action update: Release youth prisoners of conscience

The trial of Yan Sidorov, Vladislav Mordasov and Viacheslav Shashmin is ongoing at the Rostov-on-Don regional court, in southwestern Russia. They are being prosecuted for trying to organise a peaceful protest in November 2017 in support of dozens of Rostov-on-Don residents who had lost their houses in mass fires earlier that year. At the trial, Yan Sidorov and Vladislav Mordasov reaffirmed that they had been tortured to extract “confessions” but the court disregarded the statements. The three men are prisoners of conscience and must be released immediately and unconditionally and their allegations of torture and other ill-treatment effectively investigated.

Take action.

PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 18 SEPTEMBER 2019

Please write urgently in your own words or using the template letter in English or Russian to:

Yuriy Yakovlevich Chaika

Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation

Prosecutor General’s Office 

ul. B.Dmitrovka, d.15a

125993 Moscow GSP- 3

Russian Federation

Fax: +7495 987 58 41/ +7495 692 17 25

Twitter: @Genproc

Salutation: Dear Prosecutor General

Yurii Alekseevich Baranov

Prosecutor of Rostov Region

Prosecutor's Office of Rostov Region

344011, Rostov-on-Don, Pereulok Khalturinskiy, 101

Russian Federation

Salutation: Dear Prosecutor  

Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country.

HIS EXCELLENCY DR ALEXANDER V YAKOVENKO Embassy of the Russian Federation 6/7 Kensington Palace Gardens, London, W8 4QP Tel: 0207 229 6412 Fax: 0207 727 8625 kanc@rusemb.org.uk

Please check with your section before sending appeals after the above date.