LONDON — A military court in Moscow sentenced a 43-year-old woman to eight years in a penal colony on Thursday (Nov 14) for posting anti-war comments online, including several calling for the assassination of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Russian news agencies reported.
Moscow-based director Anastasia Berezhinskaya hurled insults and accusations at Russia's President Vladimir Putin by posting on a social network platform.LONDON — A military court in Moscow sentenced a 43-year-old woman to eight years in a penal colony on Thursday for posting anti-war comments online, including several calling for the assassination of Russia's President Vladimir Putin, Russian news agencies reported.
More than 1,000 people have been criminally prosecuted in Russia for speaking out against the war in Ukraine, according to rights project OVD-Info, and more than 20,000 have been detained for protesting. On May 14, 2022, she posted more than three dozen times on VKontakte, a social network, hurling insults at Putin and saying he bore personal responsibility for the deaths of men, women and children whose bodies were being pulled from under the rubble of Ukrainian apartment blocks.
As Berezhinskaya continued to post that day in May, she began to call for the death of Putin, who at 72 years old is on course to become Russia's longest-serving leader since Empress Catherine the Great in the 18th century.
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