Russia, 19 -year -old prisons for its condemnation of its war in Ukraine Control news

Daraya Cosifa used poetry and graffiti in the nineteenth century to protest against Russia’s war on Ukraine.

A Russian court issued a sentence for approximately three years in prison to Daraya Corva, a young activist who used poetry and writings in the nineteenth century to protest against war In Ukraine.

A Reuters news agency at the court said on Friday that Caweva, 19, was convicted of “distorting the reputation” of the Russian army repeatedly after it was placed a poster with lines of the Ukrainian verse in a public square and conducted an interview with Sever.realii, a service in Russian in the free radio Europe.

She was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison.

On Friday, Cosva acknowledged that she was not guilty, and called on the case against her “great manufacturing”, according to a trial version collected by the media, an independent news outlet.

“I have no guilt. My conscience is clear,” she said, according to the media version.

“Because the truth is never guilty.”

In December 2022, only 17 years old, Kozyreva sprayed the words, “The killers, I bombed them. Terminology”, black paint on a statue of the hearts of two intertwined, constructed outside the Hermetage Museum in Saint Petersburg, which represents the city’s bonds with the mariolpol, the city of Ocreen in Oclina earlier.

In early 2024, after it was fined 30,000 rubles ($ 370) for its publication on Ukraine online, Kozyreva was expelled from St. Petersburg Medical State College.

A month later, on the second anniversary of the war, it recorded a piece of paper that contains a part of the verse by Taras Shevchenko, the father of modern Ukrainian literature, on a statue in Saint Petersburg:

“Burn me, then lift / break your heavy steel / water with the blood of the tyrants / freedom that you gained.”

Kozyreva was quickly arrested and detained in detention for almost a year, until it was released in February to arrest the house.

“Punishment for the quote of hair”

Natalia Zivajina, Director of Russia International Amnesty International, said on Friday’s ruling “another reminder of the chill that the Russian authorities will silence a peaceful opposition to their war in Ukraine.”

“Daraya Coseva is being punished for a quotation of classic Ukrainian poetry in the nineteenth century, to speak against it against an unfair war and her silence rejected,” He said In a statement.

“We demand the immediate and unconditional release of Daria Kozyreva and everyone who imprisoned under” war control laws. “

Kozyreva is currently one of 234 people who were imprisoned in Russia In order to place the war, according to the outcome of the Nobel Prize -winning Russian human rights group.

The arrests of espionage and the collection of sensitive data are increasingly frequent in Russia since it began to invade it widely to Ukraine in February 2022.

Ivan GeckvichA correspondent for the Wall Street Journal was arrested last year on suspicion of trying to obtain military secrets and was charged with spying, which carries a penalty of up to 20 years, and is currently awaiting trial. The United States has appointed him “wrongly detained” and seeks to release him.

Russian -American journalist alsu kurmasheva He was arrested last October and is awaiting trial on charges of failure to register as a “foreign agent”. She is also being held in reservation awaiting trial.