Amnesty International urges release of trans man held in ‘degrading’ conditions in Russia

A trans man is being held in “inhuman and degrading conditions” in Russia on a more than decade-long treason sentence after donating money to a bank account in Ukraine.

Mark Kislitsyn, an LGBTQ+ activist from Moscow, was sentenced to 12 years in a penal colony by the Moscow City Court in 2023 for sending ₽865 (equal to $10 in the United States) to a Ukrainian bank account, which the authorities say was collecting “donations for the needs of the Ukrainian Armed Forces”.

Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and since then it has been estimated that 43,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died.

Previous to being arrested for the donation, Mark Kislitsyn was reportedly arrested and fined in 2022 for demonstrating against

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