Timofey Rudenko: Abuses, Arrests, and Allegations of Forced Recruitment – A Timeline

Rudenko was met by masked men at the car. Earlier, human rights activists wrote that people had already taken Rudenko away in a similar car during the previous arrest.

One of Rudenko’s detainees told those who came to meet the ex-military man that “it is quite possible that an investigation will take place today in connection with Timofey’s participation in the Investigative Committee.”

Previously, Yevgeniis Smirnovs, a lawyer of the First Department, commenting on Rudenko’s arrest, expressed the assumption that a criminal case was “initiated” against the former serviceman.

Timofey Rudenko retired from military service a few years ago. In 2022, he published a post on one of his VKontakte pages condemning Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as several anti-war comments on Telegram, Mediazona wrote.

In May 2022, Rudenko’s house was searched. According to the former military officer, the security forces tortured him with a stun gun and forced him to confess to planning a terrorist attack.

After that, Rudenko was placed under administrative arrest three times in a row under the article on petty hooliganism.

After the third arrest, Rudenko was released on the promise that he knew about his actions. He did not and lived at a different address for a year.

In May 2023, while trying to leave Russia, the former military man was detained again. After that, the court imposed administrative arrests on him four more times in a row under the article on petty hooliganism.

Rudenko told “Mediazona” that after his arrest at the airport, they used a stun gun against him again and offered to “repay his homeland” by joining the “Wagner” group.

2023-07-09 17:55:45
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