The court rejected the appeal against Charlotte's sentence.

The cassation court rejected the appeal of the sentence against singer Eduard Sharlot, who apologized to the head of Chechnya.

As reported by "Caucasian Knot," in December 2024, the court sentenced Eduard Sharlot to 5.5 years in a penal colony for rehabilitating Nazism and insulting religious believers. In his final statement, the musician apologized again for his videos. The defense and prosecution appealed the verdict, but the appellate court upheld it.

The Supreme Court of Russia has rejected Eduard Charlotte's appeal against his sentence, the singer's father, Valery Charlotte, told RIA Novosti.

The appeal was rejected; we don't know the reasons yet.

"The appeal was rejected; we don't know the reasons yet," he said. Valery Charlotte added that a decision on refiling the appeal has not yet been made, the agency writes.

As a reminder, Eduard Charlotte, a native of Samara, is a Russian singer and blogger. The criminal prosecution was prompted by Charlotte's social media posts, in which he posted provocative videos. In the summer of 2023, Charlotte moved to Armenia and expressed his disagreement with the Russian government's actions, but he quickly ran out of money there. In November of that year, the musician returned to Russia and was detained at the airport. Human rights activists recognized him as a political prisoner. In August 2025, it became known that Charlotte had been transferred from a penal colony to a general regime penal colony. Charlotte had violated the prison's regulations and encouraged other inmates to engage in negative behavior, the prosecutor's office explained. Charlotte appealed the decision to toughen his sentence, but the court upheld it. The singer's father, Valery Charlotte, explained that his son was charged with 19 prison violations and placed in solitary confinement four times. "He didn't keep his hands behind his back. He kept more than just the things he was allowed to keep in his nightstand—like a T-shirt. He didn't say hello to someone. There were 19 such violations in total. In just two miserable months, he was in solitary confinement four times. He went on hunger strike three times, but it didn't help," said Valery Charlotte.