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The war in Ukraine/ Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko is sentenced to 7 years in prison for messages against the war
2023-11-16 17:53:28 / BOTA
A Russian anti-war activist has been sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for replacing supermarket price tags with anti-war messages.
Sasha Skochilenko, 33, an artist from St. Petersburg, has been in custody since April last year. She was convicted of spreading "false information" about the Russian army.
The young woman's lawyers asked for her release, saying that with the chronic diseases she suffers from, she risks dying in prison. Weeks after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ms Skochilenko protested by replacing supermarket labels at a St Petersburg supermarket with anti-war messages.
The replacement tags read: “Russian army bombed an art school in Mariupol. About 400 people were hiding inside” and “My great-grandfather did not fight in World War II for four years so that Russia would become a fascist state and attack Ukraine. "
Ms. Skochilenko accepted the charges. In her closing speech, the artist used a defiant tone, asking the court: "How little faith does our prosecutor have in the state and our society, if he thinks that our citizenship and public safety can be destroyed by five small pieces of paper?".
Last month, journalist Marina Ovsyannikova, who protested the invasion of Ukraine live on state TV, was sentenced to 8.5 years in prison. In April, British-Russian opposition activist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years for his criticism of the war.
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