Posted on 12/09/2022 6:24:49 AM PST by Salohcin
A Moscow court on Friday sentenced prominent opposition politician Ilya Yashin to eight and a half years in jail for spreading "false" information about the Russian military in his criticism of the Kremlin invasion of Ukraine.
The 39-year-old Moscow city councilor was found guilty for saying that occupying Russian forces in Ukraine were responsible for the massacre of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha this spring.
Judge Oksana Goryunova of the Meshchansky district court said Yashin had committed a crime by disseminating "knowingly false information about Russia's Armed Forces."
One of the few vocal Kremlin critics who chose to stay in Russia following the war’s outbreak, Yashin made his comments during a YouTube stream in April, though he wasn’t arrested until July.
An ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, Yashin is one of hundreds of Russians to face prosecution under new laws that criminalize spreading information contradicting the Kremlin line about the war, though this is the harshest punishment yet to be handed down for such a case.
In his closing address to the court earlier this week Yashin labeled the law and his imprisonment “the will of Vladimir Putin,” adding that the Russian president also bears personal responsibility for the “bloodbath” in Ukraine.
Yashin’s supporters, including prominent opposition politicians, gathered outside the court house in Moscow ahead of the verdict and sentencing on Friday.
“This trial is unfair, it violates the constitutional rights to freedom of speech — not only Ilya’s rights, but also the rights of all Russian citizens,” said former Moscow municipal deputy Yulia Galyamina outside the court.
“It is clear that his prison term will be long, but I’m sure that he won’t serve all of it,” Galyamina added.
Mikhail Lobanov, another Russian politician who was outside the court awaiting the sentencing said it was “yet another prison sentence for nothing.”
From his own penal colony, jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny called the case "another shameless and lawless verdict by Putin's court" and said it would "not silence Ilya and should not intimidate the honest people of Russia."
"This is yet another reason why we need to keep fighting, and I have no doubt we will ultimately win," Navalny said via Twitter.
Bucha was done by Ukraine. And say anything against Zelinsky and SBU comes to your apartment. You’ll be lucky if all you get is jail. Do it in DC and you get 2 years in solitary.
Ah behold more Putins christian “freedom”!!
You're completely out of your mind, like some flat earth believer.
Yes. putin is evil
“This is yet another reason why we need to keep fighting, and I have no doubt we will ultimately win,” Navalny said via Twitter.
May Navalny be correct
And Putin is a "shining beacon of morality, better than the West?"
Putin would stream gay pr0n from the Kremlin if it'd get him an incremental ounce of power. I bet his laptop is as disgusting as Hunter's.
Sure, and all those Jews in Europe during World War 2 killed themselves, right?
Should have done the same to Jane Fonda.
Except Ukrainians filmed themselves in process, which I showed you many times, but you still push the debunked narrative. Kinda explaining who you are.
No jackass. But about a quarter of the ones killed in Ukraine were killed by Banderists.
LOL, whole world knows russians executed civilians at Bucha. What countries believe differently?
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights DECEMBER 2022
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights KILLINGS OF CIVILIANS: SUMMARY EXECUTIONS AND ATTACKS ON INDIVIDUAL CIVILIANS IN KYIV, CHERNIHIV, AND SUMY REGIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION’S ARMED ATTACK AGAINST UKRAINE
This report by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) addresses killings of civilians, encompassing both summary executions and attacks on individual civilians, committed in parts of Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions of Ukraine between 24 February and 6 April 2022, while under military control of the Russian Federation. The report documents certain killings and, in so doing, aims to contribute to victims’ right to truth and accountability, as well as to deter future violations of international human rights, humanitarian and criminal law in the context of the continuing international armed conflict in Ukraine. It also advocates for enhanced efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice and to provide victims with remedy and reparations.1
2. With the start of the armed attack of the Russian Federation on Ukraine on 24 February 2022, Russian troops entered ten regions of Ukraine, including Kyiv, Chernihiv and Sumy regions to the north and northwest of the capital. In early April, after several weeks of fighting with Ukrainian armed forces, they retreated from those three regions. Soon afterward, the bodies of dead civilians started to be recovered in considerable numbers in various towns and villages of the three regions. A significant number of the bodies bore signs indicating that the victims may have been intentionally killed.
3. As of 31 October 2022, OHCHR – through the United Nations Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine (HRMMU)2 – had documented summary executions and attacks on individual civilians in 102 villages and towns of the three regions between 24 February and 6 April 2022. The acts in question were committed by Russian armed forces3 in control of these areas and led to the deaths of 441 civilians (341 men, 72 women, 20 boys and 8 girls). One hundred of those killings are analysed in this report and its Annex, as illustrative examples of the suffering borne by civilians in these areas.
Fifty-seven of the 100 killings presented in the report and its Annex are assessed as summary executions (48 men, 7 women, and 2 boys). Thirty of those took place in places of detention and the other 27 victims were summarily executed on the spot, shortly after coming under the control of the perpetrators. OHCHR found that men and boys were overwhelmingly targeted, comprising 88 per cent of all victims of summary executions. In most cases, Russian soldiers detained civilians on suspicion of participating in hostilities or otherwise contributing to the war effort. The periods of detention prior to the executions varied from a few hours to several weeks. Civilians were detained in houses, basements, garages, industrial or office compounds, or other premises occupied by Russian troops. In most cases, victims of killings in places of detention were found with their hands cuffed or bound by duct-tape, and with injuries suggesting torture or other ill-treatment before being killed. In at least one case, the body of one of the victims showed signs consistent with sexual violence. The circumstances of the summary executions provide strong indications that these killings may amount to the war crime of wilful killing, a grave breach of the Geneva Conventions.
7. In the other 43 killings presented in the report and its Annex (representing 27 men, 13 women, and 3 boys), civilians were killed while moving within or between settlements on foot or by bicycle, car or van. Most victims were targeted while commuting to work, delivering food to others, visiting neighbours or relatives, or while attempting to flee the hostilities. In some cases, soldiers of the Russian armed forces opened fire on civilian households. In all documented cases, OHCHR found that the perpetrators made no apparent attempt to respect the principle of distinction or the obligation to take all feasible precautions to spare civilians.
https://www.ohchr.org/sites/default/files/2022-12/2022-12-07-OHCHR-Thematic-Report-Killings-EN.pdf
“Bucha was done by Ukraine.”
Either that or the Ukrainian mayor there didn’t notice the bodies he was stepping over for 3 days after he returned there. This one was clear-cut, but the entire ‘Ukraine Project’ of the Neocons would have been wiped out had they actually told the truth about Bucha.
Not speaking out about war crimes but blaming of crimes without proves. And supporting foreign adversary propaganda claims too.
It is all considered a high crime of supporting enemy during the war which Russia fights. He shouldn’t do it inside Russia.
Right, so ALL the surviving residents of Bucha are lying when they say the russians executed their loved ones, sometimes right in front of them. Video cctv footage of russian soldiers leading tied up men to execution is a lie. Drone footage showing the bodies lying there, with russian vehicles parked around the corner is a lie. Satellite pictures of bodies lying there during russian occupation is a lie. You're ridiculous.
As I recall, Navalny is correctly in Prison.
Wrong.
Navalny is incorrectly, unjustly imprisoned.
I’m curious, is that want you want for America, too?
authoritarianism? dictatorship?
The silencing and removal of a sitting President.
The fixing of an American Presidential Election.
Political arrest and uncharged, indeterminate detention of January 6th political prisoners in Gulag conditions.
Government prosecutorial targeting of family members of the Presidential Cabinet ala Mike Flynn.
And ALL of these players and actions have had assistance from Zelensky and the Ukraine Coup Government, and the approval of Navalny.
Is that want YOU want for America?
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