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Canonical ID: NK-RR4WvzWN36va3SJXwuPotp · Entity type: Person (reference)
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Person:notes | Timur Vakhrameev, a judge at the Basmanny District Court in Russia, has been involved in a number of politically motivated prosecution cases, imposing disproportionately harsh sentences on several individuals and extending the detention of others. Judge Vakhrameev participated in the unjust and politically motivated prosecution of journalists Kirill Martynov and Dmitry Kolezev, as well as activist Lyusya Shtein, sentencing each of them to several years in prison in an effort to silence independent journalism and civil society in Russia. He also extended the pre-trial detention of lawyers Vadim Kobzev and Alexey Liptser, as well as journalists Konstantin Gabov and Sergei Karelin, in politically motivated cases related to crackdowns on individuals associated with the Anti-Corruption Foundation or Alexei Navalny himself. Additionally, he prolonged the pre-trial detention of Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the Golos movement, Russia’s key independent election watchdog initiative, in an apparent attempt to exert additional pressure on public election monitoring in the country. In all of the aforementioned cases, controversial articles of the Russian Criminal Code on undesirable organisations, discrediting the Russian army, or extremism were applied. Moreover, earlier in 2023, while serving as a justice of the peace in Moscow’s Tagansky District, Timur Vakhrameev also played an active role in penalising international companies such as Wikimedia and Google for failing to remove factual information about Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine. Timur Vakhrameev is therefore responsible for serious human rights violations, the repression of civil society and democratic opposition and activities seriously undermining democracy and the rule of law in Russia. | eu_journal_sanctions | eu-oj-45e4e0f5025667c878756a2b03a12ae04a751d7b | ||||