A Kirov resident was sentenced to 8 years in prison in the case of military “fakes” and justification of terrorism.

The Central District Military Court sentenced Kirov resident Richard Rose to eight years in a general regime penal colony on charges of distributing “fakes” about the Russian army motivated by hatred (clause “e”, part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and justifying terrorism on the Internet (ch 2 Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). About this SOTAvision.

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refused Initially, the case was opened under the article about “fakes” - Rose published a video on Instagram of Alexander Sotnik about the murder of residents of Bucha with the comment: “The massacre in Bucha will never be forgotten throughout the world and the Russian fascists will never be forgiven for this!” The man has been in custody since the spring of 2022.

charged In December 2022, it became known that there was another case against the accused - about justifying terrorism. This time, the occasion was the publication on Rose’s Instagram of a video calling on Ukrainian musician Svyatoslav Vakarchuk to stop the war and commenting: “There is only one way to stop a putler - to kill him physically.”

accused Richard Rose in court, saying: “Since I don’t watch TV, wasn’t aware of the briefings of the Ministry of Defense and Putin’s orders, and don’t visit the websites of Russian media and government agencies, I decided that the Russian Armed Forces were to blame for this.”

admitted The prisoner's wife, Maria, is also being persecuted because of her anti-war statements. There are criminal cases against her under articles on military “fakes” (clause “d”, part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and calls for extremist activity (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code). In the spring of 2022, she will be prohibited from certain actions as a preventive measure; in December it became known that the woman and her child were from Russia.

brought in, appointed to leave , consideration of her case on August 30, 2023, the court in Kirov resumed. In May of this year, Maria Rose was put on the federal wanted list, after which her security forces in Armenia came to the woman’s home and took her and her son to the police. They were released six hours later: during this time, according to Rose, she was threatened with arrest and extradition to Russia, as well as that the child would be sent to an orphanage. As a result, she and her child ended up in Poland.

announced they were detained - In May 2023, the ECHR awarded Richard Rose compensation of 3,500 euros in the case of unlawful detention and trial after the anti-Putin protest of 2018 “He is not our king.” awarded - 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 650 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