Harsh punishment for a Russian student: The court sent her to prison for several years for writing Death to the Regime

The prosecutor demanded seven years for Sněžkov and five years for Lizunová in a penal colony for the fact that, in addition to the mentioned inscription, they also reported on social networks about “direct anti-war actions”, in particular about setting fire to military administrations. Reported by the Russian-language website of the BBC.

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Lizunov was transferred from house arrest to pretrial detention two weeks ago because she once came home two hours late. She thus became the first underage schoolgirl to be locked up in a detention center for anti-war protests.

Lizunov and Sněžkov were arrested by agents of the FSB secret service, the successor to the Soviet secret police KGB, the year before last October, right at the moment when they were painting the sign “Death to the Regime” on the garages on the outskirts of Čita. When the agents asked them who made the sign, Snezkov said he didn’t know – and considering the agents were just passers-by, he even exchanged a few insults with them before they pulled out their IDs.

They accused the pair of committing three crimes: inciting terrorism and extremism, as well as vandalism motivated by political grudges. Sněžkov was detained in January last year under the pretext of a possible escape from Russia.

According to the OVD-Info portal, which specializes in monitoring police interventions, more than 900 people in Russia face criminal charges for anti-war protests. Last year, Russian courts handed down seven times more verdicts based on “anti-war” clauses than a year earlier – 115 compared to 17.

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