Igor Nagavkin

In July 2010, Nagavkin was charged with theft. As a measure of restraint, a travel ban was enforced on him. On 13 April 2011, Nagavkin visited the prosecutor of the Voroshilovsky District of Volgograd to file a complaint and was detained by police officers in the prosecutor's office. The court subsequently modified the measure of restraint, placing him under house arrest. On 11 July 2011, Nagavkin was found guilty and sentenced to 160 hours of community service. On 5 October 2011, a court of appeal sentenced him to an additional fine of 15,000 rubles.

There was also an attempt to initiate a criminal case against Nagavkin for the use of violence against a government official. On 16 April 2010, as Nagavkin was being arrested for attempting to remove a tyre, he allegedly threatened the traffic police officer, who happened to be the husband of the car owner, with violence. Six decisions were issued declining to open a criminal case.

In late September 2016, Nagavkin was detained along with three acquaintances on suspicion of attempting to steal valuables from a pawnshop. On 1 October he was taken into custody. In April 2017, Nagavkin was transferred from the Volgograd region to Moscow, as his case was merged with a murder case that was being investigated in Moscow. Nagavkin has repeatedly declared a hunger strike. In December 2017, he was beaten in the Moscow City Court building. On November 16, 2018, the Moscow City Court ruled to release Nagavkin from custody due to delays in the proceedings, violation of territorial jurisdiction, and the investigator's inability to explain the need to extend the arrest. Nagavkin's case was again transferred to Volgograd. On April 18, 2023, the court in Volgograd sentenced Nagavkin to six years in a penal colony. On July 18, the court of appeal reduced the sentence by two months.

On May 15, 2023, the staff of the pre-trial detention centre where Nagavkin was being held intended to place him in a cell where those being prosecuted in cases of sexual violence, including against minors, were being held. Nagavkin threatened to contact the prosecutor's office and promised the staff serious consequences in a rude manner. The exchange of remarks was filmed on a video recorder and transferred to the Investigative Committee, after which a new case was opened against Nagavkin — for disrupting the work of the pre-trial detention center.

At the trial for the case of disruption of the work of the pre-trial detention center, Nagavkin said that the head of Pretrial Detention Center No. 5, Sergei Kravchuk, through threats and torture, tried to force him to stop writing complaints and defending his innocence. According to the human rights activist defending him, on November 16, a Federal Penitentiary Service officer severely beat his client. And the assistant prosecutor who visits the pre-trial detention center refused to document the beatings. The next day, the head of the detention center, according to Nagavkin, told him that he would "stick a phone up his ass and pull it out with a stick." That same day, Nagavkin was placed in solitary confinement, in response to which he went on a hunger strike. It lasted three days until the prisoner was informed that Kravchuk had been transferred to the position of head of another pre-trial detention center.

On February 27, 2024, the court of cassation returned the theft case to the court of appeal. On April 22, at the request of the prosecutor's office, the court of appeal reclassified the charge as less severe and released Nagavkin from further execution of the sentence.

On June 26, 2024, Nagavkin was sentenced to a two-year suspended sentence in the case of disrupting the work of the pre-trial detention center.

On September 12, 2024, the court of appeal replaced the sentence with two years in a penal colony. On October 9, Nagavkin filed a complaint with the 4th Court of Krasnodar against the ruling of the appeals court and the sentence itself.

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