A Russian military court sentenced 10th grader, 17-year-old Lyubov Lizunova to 3.5 years in prison. Nineteen-year-old Alexandr Sněžkov was given six years. Both were sentenced for the inscription Death to the regime, which they painted on the outskirts of the Siberian city of Chita, the Russian mutation of the BBC reported, citing human rights defenders who watched the trial.
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7:49 am April 26, 2024
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A Russian student is to serve 3.5 years for the inscription Death to the regime (illustrative photo) | Photo: Maxim Shemetov | Source: Reuters
The prosecutor demanded five years for Lizunov and seven years for Sněžkov in a penal colony for the fact that, in addition to the mentioned sign, they also reported on social networks about “direct anti-war actions“especially about setting fire to military administrations.
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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 day before last October, right at the moment when they were painting the sign Death to the Regime near garages on the outskirts of Čita.
When the agents asked them who had painted the sign, Snezkov replied that he did not know – and considering the agents to be ordinary passers-by, he even exchanged a few insults with them before they pulled out their IDs.
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They accused the couple of committing three crimes: inciting terrorism and extremism, as well as vandalism motivated by political grudge. 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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