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A new case under the article on the rehabilitation of Nazism has been opened against Richard Rows, who is already serving an eight-year sentence for “spreading military fakes” and “justifying terrorism.” This was reported by the prisoner’s support group.
Richard’s wife, Maria, is calling for maximum publicity. She suspects that the new case may have been launched either because of Richard’s conversations with other prisoners or an essay he wrote in the colony. The family does not have any further information at this time.
The persecution of Richard Rows
In 2023, he was sentenced to eight years in a penal colony on charges of spreading “fakes” about the Russian army and justifying terrorism, due to his publications about the war and a comment: “There’s only one way to stop Putler—kill him physically.”
Rows was arrested in April 2022. He has said that after being detained, he was beaten in the FSB building. In pre-trial detention, Rows gave a confession after officers threatened to arrest his wife, send his son to an orphanage, and create unbearable conditions for him in detention. In addition, one FSB officer promised to “cut off [all his] means of communication.”
A “fakes” case was also opened against his wife, Maria Rows, over her posts about the events in Bucha. She was then additionally charged with incitement to extremism. A few months later, Maria Rows, who was not taken into custody during the investigation, left Russia with her son. She was sentenced in absentia to five and a half years in a penal colony.