Dmitry Ivanov

Affiliated media: Telegram channel “Protest MSU”, Author

Incident date: November 19, 2025

Attack type:

• Non-fatal attack / beating / injury / torture

Who attacked: Authorities

Source: Mediazona

Location: Russia, Tambov Oblast, Tambov Oblast

Additional information:

Dmitry Ivanov, the author of the Telegram channel Protest MSU and a political prisoner, has been placed in a punishment cell for 15 days for allegedly violating internal prison regulations. The penalty was imposed after he attempted to drink water after lights out. Ivanov is being held in Penal Colony No. 3 in the Tambov region. In March 2023, the Timiryazevsky District Court of Moscow convicted him of spreading so-called “fake news” about the army and sentenced him to eight and a half years in a general-regime penal colony.