Russian citizen sentenced to seven years for texting about military equipment approaching Georgia

The Krasnodar Regional Court sentenced Oksana Sevastidi to seven years in prison for high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The reason for the criminal prosecution was the SMS messages that the woman sent in 2008, shortly before the war with Georgia: Sevastidi wrote to a friend in Georgia that she had seen a train in Sochi with military equipment going towards Abkhazia. This was reported on December 1 by Meduza.

her The court sentenced back in March 2016, but so far this has not been reported, the newspaper notes. The lawyer of the convict, Ivan Pavlov, seeks her release. According to him, the verdict describes in detail the events that preceded the war with Georgia, including the numbers of military units and the types of equipment that was moved by rail.

“From the point of view of the informational significance and sensitivity of the information, her text messages, when compared with the verdict, are like a drop and a sea,” Pavlov said.