Russian hairdresser prison due to the allegation of the neighbor to publish fake news

The hairdresser from the St. Petersburg was imprisoned for five years and two months for deploying fake news about the Russian army.

Anna Alexandrova denied the publication of eight anti -war messages on social media, and she insisted that the case was driven by youth on the ground with one of the neighbors.

Her neighbor told the BBC that she complained to prosecutors after Alexandrova sent her daughter’s photos to the war in Ukraine.

Distinction of the armed forces and the deployment of fake news intentionally from the army became a crime in Russia within weeks of the full invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Since the war began, the Kremlin intensified a campaign against the opposition, imprisoned hundreds of opponents and critics and silencing independent media.

In a separate case on Tuesday, four journalists were imprisoned in Moscow for a period of five and a half years after being convicted of working in an “extremist organization”.

Antonina Favorskaya, Kostantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin and Artyom Krieger insisted that they were only making their jobs as journalists, but the court found that they produced a work used by the Anti -Corruption Group founded by Putin Alexe’s naval opponent.

Navalny dead was found in a criminal colony in the Arctic Circle last year. The video taken by Favorskaya on the courtroom video link the day before the controversial Navalny death was the last time it was alive.

Favorskaya worked at the independent Sotavision port and was ultimately arrested in March 2024 in filming in a cemetery where he was buried.

Russia’s restrictions on the opposition have improved people from all aspects of life.

The condemnation led to prison periods, and the Russians informed their colleagues and other people who know, in actions that remind us of the Soviet era when he was a boy named Paville Morozov.

Anna Alexandrova, a 47 -year -old mother, was arrested for the first time in November 2023 due to eight jobs that she shared through two unknown accounts on the Russian social network VKontakte.

When Steve Rosenberg, BBC’s editor -in -chief visited Russia last September, Alexandrova’s lawyer told him that the case had begun in an ordinary local conflict on the ground.

“One of the two sides went to the police, but he had never changed only when” fake news about the army appeared. “

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It turned out that Anna Alexandrova was initially on the same side as her neighbor in fighting the removal of local forests by developers in the village of Corbyikiolia, south of Saint Petersburg.

But they eventually fell in a row, which has become increasingly increasing.

Although Alexandrova denied sending pictures from the war to its neighbor, the court sent it to a criminal colony and ordered it not to publish any other material over the next three years.

Meanwhile, the lawyers of the Moscow Advisor, who obtained the first full prison period in July 2022 under the “Fake News” law, filed a complaint against the crime with the Russian Constitutional Court.

Alexei Gorenov was initially given seven years in prison after being filmed criticizing Russia’s invasion of the Council meeting. He objected to the idea of ​​a children’s drawing competition when children die in Ukraine.

This initial sentence was extended for another three years last year when he was accused of criticizing the war in the prison hospital.

In a statement on Tuesday, Lawyers Katrina Terrtoina and Oga Bodopopova said that the 2022 article aimed at combating information did not serve constitutional legitimate goals.

“Under the guise of public order protection, it is used to punish anti -war opinions, criticize the authorities, and spread information – including sincere information – if they contradict the official narration,” the lawyers argued.