The court received a case of military “fakes” against a girl who held pickets at the Russian Embassy in Canada

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow will consider the case of Maria Kartasheva, accused of disseminating deliberately false information about the Russian military motivated by political hatred (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Card on the website of the Moscow courts.

available The case came to court on July 3, two hearings scheduled for July were postponed, the next one was scheduled for August 22. On April 24, to Kartashev in absentia, a month later it came into force, the woman was in the wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Arrested decision is Kartasheva left Russia more than three years ago. I learned about the criminal case from my mother living in Vladivostok - investigators called her. The reason for her pickets was at the Russian Embassy in Canada.

could become The news headline has been changed. - Since February 24, 2022—the first day of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—residents of Russian cities have been going out to anti-war rallies every day and talking about the tragedy online. Anti-war speeches and statements become grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 600 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our. infographic - Article 207.3 (Public dissemination of knowingly false information about the use of the armed forces of the Russian Federation) in the Criminal Code in March 2022 - this is how the authorities responded to anti-war speeches and statements, as well as the dissemination of information about the war that does not come from official Russian sources. The maximum penalty under this article is 15 years in prison. turned on