A Russian court on Tuesday handed down prison sentences to two men accused of acting violently toward police during anti-Kremlin protests this summer, while separately a court jailed another man for five years over an 'extremist' tweet. The sentences came amid a crackdown by authorities on
A Russian court on Tuesday handed down prison sentences to two men accused of acting violently toward police during anti-Kremlin protests this summer, while separately a court jailed another man for five years over an"extremist" tweet.
Authorities have sought to paint those peaceful protests as violent riots and have brought charges against 14 individuals they say participated.A Moscow district court on Tuesday sentenced Danil Beglets and Ivan Podkopaev to two and three years in penal colonies respectively for allegedly using force against police at the July 27 protest.
“They’ll look at the nice happy family photos, study the geo-location, and next the child of a gallant police officer one day simply won’t come back from school. Instead of the child a compact disc with a snuff video will come in the mail,” he wrote in the tweet. The charges fall under Russia’s extremely harsh anti-extremism legislation, which has been used previously to jail people for writing or sharing posts on social media deemed critical of the government.
Many of those charged in the trials have featured in heavily-edited state news reports, cut to make it look like they were acting aggressively. “We have the grounds to say that the protests were peaceful, peaceful. And if someone was disturbing public order, if someone was carrying out acts of violence, that was the police. Not the protesters,” Lokshina said.After backing down over journalist, Russian police arrest hundreds at protest
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Russia jails 2 men, blogger amid crackdown following anti-Kremlin protestsA Russian court hands down prison sentences to two men accused of acting violently toward police during anti-Kremlin protests this summer, while separately a court jails another man for five years over an 'extremist' tweet.
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