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In the St. Petersburg pre -trial detention center sits a journalist who fiddled from Afghanistan
A neighbor in the pre -trial detention center of Petersburzhenka Olga Smirnova, who was judged by the Fakes about the army, was the journalist Cobra Hassani, who fled from Afghanistan after the Taliban came to power there. This was announced on Tuesday, March 28, reported in the telegram channel of the Eighth Initiative Group.
Details. According to Smirnova, the girl is judged for illegally crossing the border.
“Cobra worked as a journalist on Afghan television, and after the coming to the power of Afghanistan, Taliban fought against the obligatory wearing of the hijabs. Soon, Kobra parents were imprisoned. When death began to threaten her, she fled from Afghanistan to Ukraine, ”said Smirnova.
In Ukraine, the girl studied the economy in English.
After February 24, 2022, an unknown man promised the girl to take her to Poland for a small fee. However, Kobra Hassani was deceived and brought to Moscow.
Then, on fake documents, she and several more citizens of Afghanistan were transported to St. Petersburg, where they were soon caught by police officers.
The Eighth Initiative Group asks to help with the search for human rights activist for Kobra Hassani.
What you need to know. Olga Smirnova is a civil activist, one of the creators of the unlimited action in support of the Crimean Tatars “Strategy-18”, a participant in the St. Petersburg movement “Peaceful Resistance”, which, according to the description, “spreads the truth about the criminal large-scale war of the Russian Federation against Ukraine”.
Until 2014, Smirnova worked as an architect, but after the occupation of Crimea she devoted herself to civilian activism. In 2021, she had a search due to the Strategy-18 campaign-in a criminal case on the justification of the activities of the terrorist organization banned in Russia.
Now Smirnova threatens up to 10 years in prison for nine posts about the war in Ukraine.
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