Former deputy Luza Stein was given in absentia for six years in colony for Fakes

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow found the former municipal deputy Lyudmila Stein guilty of spreading "fakes" on the army based on political hatred. She was sentenced in absentia to six years in a general regime colony and the prohibition to administer Internet sites for a period of three years.

The reason for initiating the case was the publication on Twitter in March 2022, where Stein commented on the video, which, stated, the Ukrainian military shot captive Russians in their feet.

The prosecutor demanded to say Stein to 8.5 years in prison and a four -year ban on activities related to the administration of sites, the mediazone reports . At the same time, the maximum sanction under this article is 10 years of imprisonment.

“Requested for 8.5 years, in my opinion, is more beautiful than 6, because like Fellini’s. I did not understand how half an hour has passed between the request and the sentence? The judge should go to the sentence in theory,” Lucy Stein commented on his verdict of North. Realia. As for the ban on making publications on the Internet, she spoke out with irony: “Well, of course I will not upload anything, I am a law -abiding citizen.”

• Lucy Stein is a political and art activist, a participant in the Pussy Riot state -owned group. In 2017-2018, she held the post of municipal deputy of the Basmanny district of Moscow.
• Stein left Russia in the spring of 2022, cutting the Electronic FSIN bracelet from the leg. At that time, she was serving a sentence in the "sanitary case" in the form of a restriction of freedom.
• “Sanitary case” is a criminal case under an article on incitement to violation of sanitary and epidemiological rules, which was initiated by 9 supporters of Alexei Navalny after the campaign in support of the politician on January 23, 2021 in Moscow. Kira Yarmysh, Oleg Stepanov, Nikolai Lyaskin, Oleg Navalny, Lyubov Sobol, Maria Alekhina, Anastasia Vasilieva, Dmitry Baranovsky, Lucia Shtein and Dani Akel, were accused of him.
• According to the Investigative Committee for January 2024, from the moment of the appearance of an article on Fakes about the Russian Army in the Criminal Code, the department opened 273 criminal cases. Another 81 criminal case was opened under an article on the "discredit" of the Russian Armed Forces.
• The Russian courts recognize “fakes” and “discrediting”, actually recognize any information about the war in Ukraine, which contradicts the official position of the Kremlin. At least half of the sentences about the “fakes about the army” were issued due to statements about the murder of civilians in Ukraine by the Russian military.