Putin: The Soviet Purge Continues

Discussion in 'Politics' started by gwb-trading, Mar 24, 2022.

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    Student, 20, who dared to criticise Vladimir Putin's Ukraine war jailed for SIX years
    Danuta Perednya criticised Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and Belarus' vote-rigging tyrant Alexander Lukashenko in a social media post just days after Ukraine was invaded
    https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/student-20-who-dared-criticise-27408441

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    Danuta Perednya, 20, has been jailed for 6 years for criticising the war in Ukraine
     
    #41     Jul 6, 2022
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    Say anything against Putin or his policies and you get 7 years...

     
    #42     Jul 6, 2022
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    Remember -- Don't speak out against the dictator Putin in Russia. However even during sentencing this particular lawmaker does not give up.

    Russian Court Sentences Lawmaker To Seven Years In Prison For Anti-War Statements
    https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-court-sentences-lawmaker-seven-years-prison/31934712.html

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    Aleksei Gorinov, accused of spreading "knowingly false information" about the Russian Army fighting in Ukraine, held up a sign reading "Do you need this war?" during the verdict hearing in his trial at a courthouse in Moscow on July 8.

    A Russian court has sentenced a Moscow city lawmaker to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of “knowingly distributing false information” about Russia’s military.

    Moscow’s Meshchansky District Court handed down the sentence against Aleksei Gorinov on July 8, the TASS news agency said.

    The watchdog organization OVD-Info said several spectators applauded Gorinov during proceedings and were arrested by bailiffs.

    Gorinov is the first elected official in Russia to be convicted under the “distributing false information” law that was passed in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. He could have gotten up to 15 years in prison.

    At a meeting of the Moscow city legislature in March, Gorinov criticized the Russian invasion, suggesting it was inappropriate to be holding a local children’s art competition while in Ukraine “every day children are dying.”

    During a court hearing last month, Gorinov, who was detained in April, held up a sign that read “I am against the war.”

    Prosecutors have launched dozens of investigations across the country into people who have criticized the Russian war or have merely called for peace. The Kremlin insists on calling the invasion a “special military operation.”

    "Seven years in prison for words. Seven years in prison because of a denunciation,” said Andrei Pivovarov, a prominent opposition activist who faces a five-year prison sentence for heading an “undesirable organization.”

    “A new dark page of repression in Russia has officially opened,” he wrote in a post on Facebook, following Gorinov’s sentencing.
     
    #43     Jul 8, 2022
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    #44     Jul 10, 2022
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    It's like the good ole' Soviet days are back for Putin and his buddies...

     
    #45     Jul 11, 2022
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    The Russian TV "No War' lady gets arrested again.

     
    #46     Jul 17, 2022
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    #47     Jul 18, 2022
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    #48     Jul 19, 2022
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    #49     Jul 27, 2022
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    #50     Jul 28, 2022