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In the Komi Republic, 56-year-old Vladimir Osipov, convicted under the article on military “fakes” (paragraph “d” part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), has died. This was reported by the human rights project “Prison Lawyer.”

Human rights defenders state that the man was being held in a remand centre (SIZO) in Ukhta, and news of his death was shared there today. They did not specify the facility number. Although there is no SIZO in Ukhta, there is a facility in penal colony No. 24 functioning as a remand centre. On 5 March, SOTAvision wrote that Osipov was being held in a different remand centre in Komi—SIZO-2 in Sosnogorsk, a town in Komi Republic in north-west Russia.

As noted by SOTAvision, Osipov suffered from arterial hypertension and kidney stones.

During the trial, which began in August 2025, he repeatedly asked for an ambulance due to high blood pressure and headaches. Medical staff attended, but usually did not find grounds for hospitalisation, only administering medication to lower his blood pressure. Osipov said this did not help him.

At one of the hearings, Judge Elena Terekhova removed him from the courtroom until the end of the speeches because of his persistent requests for an ambulance. She accused him of abusing his rights.

After the speeches, Osipov was hospitalised under guard, but then returned to the remand centre. He was unable to make his final statement—the judge treated his remarks about feeling unwell as a refusal to speak.

The man said that in SIZO-6, Kolomna (a town to the south-east of Moscow), he did not receive medical aid.

16:01 The “Prison Lawyer” project clarified to OVD-Info that Osipov died at SIZO-2 in Sosnogorsk.

  • A case was opened against Vladimir Osipov over his posts on Odnoklassniki. According to the prosecution, he referred to the invasion of Ukraine as a “shameful war of a shameful president” and wrote that “every criminal has their own handwriting.” He was also accused over posts alleging Putin organised the explosion on the Crimean Bridge, and accusing Russian soldiers of strikes on civilian targets in Ukraine and the killing of children in the Donbas. He denied the charges.
  • According to his wife and daughter, Osipov was brutally beaten by security forces during a search. “He was covered in blood, and we were not allowed to document any of this. His lip was split, he had a bump on his temple, wounds on his head and other injuries,” his daughter told the court.
  • Osipov had been held in a remand centre since November 2024. On 10 November 2025, the Lyubertsy City Court sentenced him to six and a half years in a general regime penal colony.