Alexey Sutuga

In April 2012, he was arrested on charges that on 4 December 2011, as part of an antifa group, he attacked a group of young nationalists, and on 17 December 2011, together with fellow antifascist Alexei Olesinov, he attacked the security guards of the Vozdukh club. The defendants and visitors to the concert at the club claimed that the guards themselves provoked the fight and used weapons.

In 2013, the investigation admitted that Sutuga had nothing to do with the episode of 4 December. In summer 2013, he was released from custody on bail, and in January 2014 the case was dropped under an amnesty.

After that, according to Sutuga, employees of the Centre for Countering Extremism threatened him with "problems". In April 2014, operatives of the Centre "E" detained him after an anti-fascist concert. The pretext was the commission of a crime by an unknown person in the area of the concert. During the detention Sutuga was questioned about his trip to Maidan. All the other detainees were soon released, while Sutuga was charged with petty hooliganism and left at the police department. He was then charged with taking part in a fight at the Sbarro cafe on 2 January 2014, where he struck multiple blows with a chair, legs and a homemade hammer to several people. Sutuga himself claimed that he was breaking up the fighting - the fight, according to him, was between a group of radical right-wing activists and another group of young people - and hit someone once in the process of breaking people up. On 1 October, Sutuga was sentenced to three years and one month in a general regime colony.

On 17 March 2015, while in the pre-trial detention facility in Irkutsk, from where he should have been transferred to a colony long ago, Sutuga went on a dry hunger strike due to the fact that he was pressured in the pre-trial detention facility: they offered to stay there instead of in the colony, and when Sutuga refused, they took away his letters and books. After Sutuga's hunger strike became known outside the pre-trial detention centre, he was transferred to the colony. He stopped his hunger strike. In the colony, Sutuga was soon sent to a punishment cell, as a certain metal sharpened strip was found in his belongings, although his belongings had been checked before. The colony authorities then ordered Sutuga to be kept in solitary confinement for a year. At the end of May 2015, it became known that Sutuga was not in the colony; later it turned out that he had been transferred to a neighbouring high-security colony. On 30 June 2016, Sutuga was returned to the colony where he had been before. On 4 May 2017, Sutuga was released.