Journalist Antonina Favorskaya, convicted in a case over alleged involvement with the Anti-Corruption Foundation, will be transferred from a punishment cell to strict detention conditions in IK-3 in the Kostroma region. This was reported by SOTAvision, a media outlet she worked with.
Favorskaya was sent to a punishment cell last week. Before that, she said she had refused to work as a seamstress in the colony, after which prison officials labeled her a “persistent violator” of internal regulations.
According to a lawyer who visited her, she will remain in the punishment cell until June 26. After that, she will be moved to strict detention conditions, regarded as one of the harshest disciplinary measures for prisoners.
After the transfer, the SOTAvision correspondent will be placed in an isolated section of the colony and her movement will be restricted. The number of parcels and visits available to her will be cut to a minimum, and the amount she may spend on personal needs will also be reduced. Her daily walks will be limited to one and a half hours in a fenced yard.
In April 2025, a Moscow court sentenced Favorskaya and journalists Sergey Karelin, Konstantin Gabov, and Artyom Kriger to five and a half years in a general-regime penal colony. They were convicted under an article on participation in the activities of an extremist community, with the charges tied to alleged involvement with FBK.
In December 2025, that ruling was upheld. The hearings were held behind closed doors, so the details of the prosecution’s case were not disclosed in court. As Mediazona reported, testimony during the trial was given, among others, by participants in street interviews published on the YouTube channel “Navalny LIVE.”
Earlier, Favorskaya filed a lawsuit in a Moscow court seeking 30 million rubles from the Interior Ministry and the Judicial Department over detention conditions at Nagatinsky Court, where her case was heard. She asked for the conditions in the court’s convoy holding rooms to be reviewed, describing them as too cramped, dark, and dirty. In May 2026, the court rejected her claim.