Activists in Yerevan held pickets in support of prisoners.

Activists held a rally near the embassies of Russia and Germany in Yerevan in support of people they consider political prisoners.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot", activists in Yerevan regularly hold pickets in support of people they consider political prisoners. Thus, on November 8, a rally was held at the German embassy in support of Russian activist Dmitry Bagrash, who is serving a sentence in a German prison, while at the Russian embassy, participants of the picket expressed support for former governor of the Khabarovsk region Sergey Furgal and other prisoners.

Today, a picket was held at the German embassy in Yerevan in support of Dmitry Bagrash. Participants of the rally demanded an independent investigation into his claims of possible legal violations by Judge Gross and Prosecutor Klaus Michael Vaks, who participated in the criminal proceedings against the activist, reported the Telegram channel RusNews.

According to activists, Bagrash previously filed a complaint about the alleged crimes of the judge and prosecutor. However, the Berlin prosecutor's office refused to initiate a criminal case, which the activist learned about on November 11. Bagrash's supporters pointed out that the complaint against the prosecutor was considered by the agency where he works, and the activist's arguments were not given substantive assessment. On November 12, Bagrash appealed the prosecutor's refusal.

Also today, a picket was held at the Russian embassy in Yerevan in support of Mansur Movlaev and activist Yulia Emelyanova, who face extradition from Kazakhstan to Russia, reported the Telegram channel in another publication.

In addition, participants of the rally expressed support for Denis Popov*, convicted for calls to extremism and comments on the internet, Gennady Artemenko, sentenced to 18 years in prison, Arseniy Turbin*, who received five years in a juvenile colony, entrepreneur Sergey Logunov, sentenced to 18 years for treason, and activist Alexey Rozhkov. Among other prisoners supported by the picketers were journalist RusNews Maria Ponomarenko, mathematician Azat Miftakhov*, and activist Gagik Grigoryan*, noted the Telegram channel.

Recall that in 2022, Mansur Movlaev was detained by security forces in Chechnya and held in an illegal prison. In January 2023, he escaped from there and reached Kyrgyzstan. In August 2023, security forces in Kyrgyzstan detained Movlaev, who was wanted in Russia for financing extremism. A court in Bishkek sentenced him to six months in a colony and subsequent deportation from the country. On November 20, 2023, Movlaev was released and left Kyrgyzstan on his own to avoid being sent back home.

In May 2025, Movlaev was detained in Kazakhstan and placed under extradition arrest. On January 30 of this year, the Prosecutor General's Office of Kazakhstan decided to extradite him to the Russian authorities. On September 10, it became known that the cassation court in Kazakhstan found no violations in the refusal to grant Movlaev asylum. After that, Movlaev, held in a Kazakh pre-trial detention center, attempted suicide.

Materials on human rights violations in Chechnya, Kadyrov's attacks on the opposition, and his struggle against dissenters in the republic are published by "Caucasian Knot" on a special thematic page "Dissent in Chechnya".

* included in the list of terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring

** the activities of the company Meta (which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp) are banned in Russia.