A Russian court on Thursday convicted an artist and musician for replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans and sentenced her to seven years in prison, Russian media reported.
Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 on charges of spreading false information about the military.
Her arrest took place about a month after authorities adopted a law effectively criminalizing any public expression about the war in Ukraine that deviates from the Kremlin’s official line. The legislation has been used in a widespread crackdown on opposition politicians, human rights activists and ordinary Russians critical of the Kremlin, with many receiving lengthy prison terms.
[Fascist Putin and friends don’t mess around. I can’t imagine how long the sentence would have been had she done the same to mattress tags. ~ Beege]
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