Posted on 07/08/2022 9:40:01 AM PDT by Zhang Fei
A court in Moscow has sentenced an opposition councillor to seven years in jail for criticising Russia’s military actions in Ukraine, the first prison sentence handed out under the new laws that restrict criticism of the war.
Alexei Gorinov, a deputy at Moscow’s Krasnoselsky district council and trained lawyer, was arrested in April on charges of spreading “knowingly false information” about the Russian army.
According to the authorities, Gorinov committed the offence when he and a fellow opposition deputy, Elena Kotenochkina, spoke out against the council’s proposal to hold a children’s drawing contest and a dancing festival despite the war in Ukraine, where Gorinov said “children were dying”.
“I believe all efforts of [Russian] civil society should be aimed only at stopping the war and withdrawing Russian troops from the territory of Ukraine,” Gorinov said during the work meeting, which was recorded on video.
The charges against Gorinov fall under a series of new laws that have been introduced since the start of Russia’s invasion.
Gorinov’s long sentence will be perceived as harsh even in the current political climate in Russia, where authorities have embarked on an unprecedented crackdown on civil society and opposition since the invasion of Ukraine began on 24 February.
Human rights groups will worry that Gorinov’s case will be the first in a string of rulings against anti-war figures who are awaiting trial.
“This is clearly a politically motivated ruling aimed at scaring the public into silence,” said Tanya Lokshina, an associate director for Europe and Central Asia at Human Rights Watch. “The outrageous sentence is evidently meant to discourage Russians to speak up against the war and express any forms of dissent.”
At least 50 people face long-term prison sentences or steep fines for “knowingly spreading false information” about the military
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The Lord HawHaw Neocons larping as conservatives can’t help themselves either. Go figure, huh?
It was in the US national interest to support Ukraine and having done so, a loss for Ukraine is a loss for America and NATO.
Of course.
But yeah, objectivity is real.
Let’s get the view from a different perspective yeah?
‘Ray McGovern - Ukraine: A Taste of The Truth’
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY9KAp97z58
Ray McGovern is literally a paid agent of KGB Russia working for Russia Today
LEts say that the US pressed Russia. Taht doesn’t justify their invasion of Ukraine or your desire for the US to lose to Russia and China. You remind me of people screaming about US support for China and Britain in 1939
Russia viewing Ukraine as an existential threat explains it, in more ways then many of you Neocons want to admit or acknowledge. Bet.
If it helps you sleep at night, of course he is.........
Stick with the Neocons that call themselves conservatives propaganda and narrative cause it is apparent that you have drank like the best ever Kool-Aid.
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