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St. Petersburg’s Hairdressers received a five -year jail and two months on charges of distributing fake news about the Russian army.
Anna Alexandrov denied to post eight anti -war messages on social media, insisting that the case was motivated by an altercation over the ground with a neighbor.
Her neighbor reported the BBC that the prosecutor’s office complained after Alexandrov sent a photo of the war in Ukraine.
The discrediting of the armed forces and intentionally spreading false news about the military has become a crime in Russia within a few weeks after a full -scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Ever since the war began, the Kremlin has strengthened the repression of dissent, holding hundreds of opponents and critics and silence of independent media.
In a separate case, four journalists were in prison in Moscow on Tuesday for five and a half years after he was found guilty of working in an “extremist organization”.
Antonin Kastarca, Konstantin Gababov, Sergei Karelin and Art Kryger insisted that they were doing only their work as journalists, but the court found that they created the work used by the Putin’s main opponent, which was used by the Corruption Group.
Last year, the thunderstorm was found dead in punishment in the Arctic circle. The video made by Favorskaya on the video link in the courtroom the day before the controversial death was the last time it was seen alive.
Favorskaya worked at an independent Sotavision outlets and eventually arrested in March 2024 in the shooting in the cemetery where he was buried.
Russia’s restrictive laws have secured people from all walks of society.
The denunciations led to the terms of imprisonment, and the Russians reported on their colleagues and other people whom they knew, in the actions that resemble the Soviet era when the boy, called Paulik Morozov, was leaved for treason.
Anna Alexandrov’s hairdresser, a 47-year-old mother of two children, was first arrested in November 2023 for eight messages she shared through two anonymous accounts in the Russian social network Vkontakte.
When BBC editor Steve Rosenberg visited the court last September, Alexandrov’s lawyer told him that the case had begun as a regular home quarrel over the ground.
“One side went to the police, but has not changed anywhere. It changed only when the charge of” fake news about the army, “said Anastasia Pilipenko.
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It turned out that Anna Alexandrov was initially on the same side as her neighbor in the fight against local forest revenues in the village of Karpikul, south of St. Petersburg.
But they eventually fell apart, which became more harmonious.
Despite the fact that Alexandrov refused to send images from the war, the court sent her to the colony and ordered it not to place further materials over the next three years.
Meanwhile, the lawyers of the Moscow Council, which in July 2022 was appointed the first term of the prison in accordance with the law of “fake news”, filed a complaint against the offense in the Constitutional Court of Russia.
Alexei Garinov was originally sentenced to seven years in prison after being filmed, criticizing Russia’s invasion at a council meeting. He objected to the idea of a children’s drawing competition when the children died in Ukraine.
This initial term was drawn for another three years last year, when he was accused of criticizing war at a prison hospital.
In a statement on Tuesday, lawyers Kateryna Tertukhina and Olga Podlylova stated that the article 2022, aimed at combating misinformation, does not serve constitutionally legitimate goals.
“Under the guise of protection of public order, it is used to punish anti-war views, criticism of the authorities and disseminating information-including true information if this is contrary to the official story,” the lawyers say.
