The investigation brought charges under the article on repeated discrediting of the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code) against St. Petersburg activist Daria Kozyreva. This was reported by RusNews.
The day before, on February 27, the Petrogradsky District Courtsent Kozyreva to a pre-trial detention center for two months. The meeting was held behind closed doors under the pretext that there were “state secrets” in the case.
Daria Kozyreva was detained on February 24 because of a poster pasted onto the monument to Taras Shevchenko in St. Petersburg with a fragment of text from the Ukrainian poet’s poem “Testament”:
“Cheer up and get up,
Tear up Kaydani
And the enemy's evil blood
Sprinkle the will!”
(“Bury and rise,
break the shackles
and that enemy blood
wash freedom").
That day, the girl was taken to the 18th police department, where the lawyer from OVD-Info, Vladislav Sosensky, was not allowed in for more than four hours. From there Kozyreva was taken to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Petrograd region. Two days later it became known that a criminal case had been initiated against the girl.
RusNews writes that you can support the accused by writing to her through the F-letter service, or by sending a postcard to the address:
195009, St. Petersburg, st. Arsenalnaya, 11, FKU pre-trial detention center No. 5 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region.
Kozyreva Daria Aleksandrovna, born in 2005
- In December last year, a protocol was drawn up against Kozyreva under an administrative article about discrediting the army. She was charged with a post of March 2022 with discussions about new articles of the Criminal Code on military “fakes” and discrediting, as well as about the imperialist nature of war. In this regard, she was expelled from St. Petersburg State University.
- At the end of 2022, Kozyreva was detained because of the inscription “Murderers, you bombed it. Judas" on the installation "Double Hearts" about the "friendship" of St. Petersburg and Ukrainian Mariupol. Soon, because of what happened, a criminal case was opened against the girl for intentional damage to property (Part 1 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code). Since then, security forces have not carried out any investigative actions in this case.
- Since February 24, 2022—the first day of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine—residents of Russian cities have been holding anti-war protests every day and talking about the tragedy online. Anti-war speeches and statements become grounds for criminal prosecution. At the moment, more than 800 people have become defendants in criminal cases initiated due to protest against the war with Ukraine. Read more about this in our infographic .