On 22 December 2015, a Moscow court sentenced Ivan Nepomnyashchikh to 2.5 years in prison for alleged violence against police at the Bolotnaya Square in 2012. The Moscow Times reports that Ivan Nepomnyashchikh was convicted of 'participating in mass public unrests' amd 'hitting police officers with an umbrella during the anti-Kremlin protests on Bolotnaya Ploshchad in 2012'. Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, who has been under house arrest since February 2015, denied the charges.

Amnesty International, in a statement issued in connection with earlier convictions of protestors at the Bolotnaya Squared demonstration on 6 May 2012, has said: “What happened on Bolotnaya Square on 6 May 2012 was not the quelling of a riot, but the crushing of a protest. The Bolotnaya trial has not exposed orchestrated violence, but rather a criminal justice system that is entirely malleable to the dictates of its political masters. The defendants in this trial were confronted by abusive use of force by police. Some of them sought to prevent violence, others to protect themselves. A few were just caught in the wrong place at the wrong time. All are victims of a politically motivated show trial. Contrary to the official line, there was not a mass riot. There was violence, but most of it was at the hands of the police. To this day, however, not a single police officer has been brought to justice for these abuses.'