Tomsk: The scattered anti -war stickers in the police forced to record an apology

In the Tomsk region, the police forced a resident of the city of Strezheva to the camera to apologize for the anti -war position. Mikhail, who scattered anti -war stickers in front of the Strezhevoy mayor, promised that the video with an apology would be recorded only “for the authorities”, and then posted a video on the network, writes the publication “7x7”.

Mikhail said that he did not actually change his attitude to the Russian war with Ukraine, but the police threatened him with the replacement of administrative prosecution (under the article on the discrediting of the Russian army) with criminal.

“The text that I read was handed to me by the police, they said that the video was needed“ for the authorities. ”I did not expect that it would appear in all Tomsk groups and telegram channels,” Mikhail said.

After the publication of the video, which scored over 30 thousand views, Mikhail resigned from work and left Strezhevoy (a population of 40 thousand people). Later, from former colleagues, he learned that his immediate superior was called from the company's management demanding to dismiss Mikhail for an anti -war position.

Two days after the video recording, the court found Mikhail guilty under the article on discrediting the RF Armed Forces (Article 20.3.3) and set a fine of 30 thousand rubles.

• Since the end of February, residents of Russia are regularly detained and fined for anti -war actions, statements or “symbols”. In Buryatia Blogger, Lilia Donskoy was found guilty of discrediting the Russian army for the fact that at the time of the detention of a resident who asked the bus driver to remove the sticker from Z, she just stood nearby. A lawyer from Transbaikalia under the same article was fined that a green ribbon was tied on her bag. Earlier, a resident of Irkutsk was detained for a single picket with a clean sheet of A4 paper.