23:49, 28 March 2025

Pensioner loses appeal in case on comment about Akhmat Kadyrov

A gavel. Photo: Fyodor Obmaykin / Yugopolis

The court of appeal recognized a comment about the death of Akhmat Kadyrov as a justification of terrorism and approved a two-year term of imprisonment for pensioner Oleg Tyryshkin.

In May 2023, activist Oleg Tyryshkin from the Kemerovo Region was accused of justifying terrorism. The reason was the pensioner’s comment on social networking services about the death of the first president of Chechnya Akhmat Kadyrov in 2004 as a result of an explosion in Grozny. Oleg Tyryshkin was included in the list of terrorists and extremists prepared by the “Rosfinmonitoring” (the Russian Federal Service for Financial Monitoring).

The military court of appeal approved the two-year term of imprisonment pronounced by court with regard to Oleg Tyryshkin in December 2024, the “OVD-Info”* human rights project reported.

In court, the defendant complained of feeling unwell.

“I can barely walk. I don't know what to do. Why should I suffer like this?” Oleg Tyryshkin complained.

The defence insisted that Oleg Tyryshkin had no intent to justify the ideologies of extremism and terrorism, and the testimony of witnesses was inadmissible evidence, since they concluded that the defendant was guilty. Furthermore, according to the advocate’s note, the court did not take into account the fact that Oleg Tyryshkin was diagnosed with serious illnesses.

*Included by the Russian Ministry of Justice (MoJ) into the register of foreign agents.

This article was originally published on the Russian page of 24/7 Internet agency ‘Caucasian Knot’ on March 27, 2025 at 06:16 pm MSK. To access the full text of the article, click here.

Source: Caucasian Knot