Oleg Dmitriev
Resident of Almetyevsk, supporter of Vyacheslav Maltsev, In October 2017, he came to Moscow after learning that Maltsev was calling for participation in the 5 November revolution. He was detained late in the evening of 1 November in a rented flat. According to Dmitriev, he and other detainees, stripped to their waists, were held for about an hour and a half on the floor with an open balcony, after which it was discovered that Molotov cocktails had been found in the flat. Dmitriev claims that they were planted in the flat. According to him, he was tortured with electric shocks in the flat and then beaten at the police station with his hands cuffed behind his back. The next day the court arrested Dmitriev for 15 days under an administrative article on disobedience to the lawful demands of police officers. On 17 November Dmitriev was taken into custody under a criminal case on participation in a terrorist community and preparation of a terrorist act. Four people were detained in the flat, but only three of them appear in the case, the fourth - Vadim Mayorov - disappeared immediately after the detainees were taken out of the flat. Shortly before detention, Mayorov suggested the use of weapons and methods of conspiracy on 5 November, making Dmitriev and other defendants in the case consider him a provocateur. In January 2019, the court granted the prosecutor's office's motion and dropped the charge of participation in a terrorist community. On 22 January, he was sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony. In the summer of 2019, Dmitriev broke his knee while exercising on the exercise yard of the Butyrka pre-trial detention centre. After the incident, Dmitriev was sent by ambulance to Botkin Hospital, where he was x-rayed, put in a plaster cast and recommended a rest regime. Upon his return to the pre-trial detention centre, Dmitriev was unable to obtain permission to be transferred from his cell to the hospital at the detention centre for 3 days, despite his worsening pains and his hunger strike. As a result, he was transferred to the hospital for 20 days, where doctors had to decide whether Dmitriev should undergo surgery or not. However, for some unknown reason, the colony staff ignored the issue of surgery. During his transfer from Moscow to the Sverdlovsk region, representatives of the Federal Penitentiary Service took away Dmitriev's crutches, and Dmitriev was able to get them again only in Nizhny Tagil penal colony-5. By the time of transfer to the colony Dmitriev had not been diagnosed, he was kept in quarantine for about a month and only on 6 November he was transferred to the hospital at the penal colony-2 in Yekaterinburg.