Artist Sasha Skochilenko was sentenced to seven years

The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced the artist Sasha Skochilenko to seven years in a penal colony in the case of fakes because of anti-war price tags, which Skochilenko posted in the trading floor of the Perekrestok store in St. Petersburg, the North. Road correspondent reports.

The charges in the case required an artist 8 years in a colony.

"If you pronounce a conviction, then what message will you send to our fellow citizens? What needs to be given under the threat of captivity? What needs to be lie, change your beliefs, if you pressed a little? What can not be pity on our soldiers? What can not be desire for a peaceful sky above your head? Do you want to say that to our fellow citizens during depresses, inconsistency, crisis and crisis and crisis and crisis and crisis and crisis. stress? " - said Skochilenko in her last word.

To support Skochilenko on the day of the sentence, dozens of people came to the court - among them, for example, was director Alexander Sokurov, who repeatedly criticized the Russian authorities.

After the announcement of the verdict, people who came to Skochilenko began to chant: "Shame!" Some of them took out sheets of A4 with the phrase "should not follow the stage."

• Sasha Skochilenko has been in jail for more than a year. She is accused of replacing the price tags with anti -war stores in grocery stores, in which there was information about the shelling of an art school in Mariupol, sending conscripts to Ukraine and the deaths of people in a neighboring country.
• During the investigation, the defense of Skochilenko has repeatedly asked Sasha to let Sasha under house arrest or a wizard subscription. The artist has numerous health problems, including gluten intolerance. In the pre -trial detention center, the disease worsened, since the insulator cannot provide Skochilenko with a full nutrition.
• The support group of Sasha Skochilenko wrote an appeal to the qualification collegium of the judges of St. Petersburg, in which she demanded to remove Judge Oksana Demyashev from the artist and deprive her of the authority of the judge. Close Skochilenko accuse Demyashev of addiction, obstacles of protection and torture over the defendant.