Prosecution demands five-year term for Pavel Krisevich, tried for mock suicide in Red Square
Prosecutors are demanding a five-year prison sentence for Pavel Krisevich, the Russian performance artist who stands accused of ‘hooliganism’ in the Red Square. Pavel Chikov, the founder of Agora, a human-rights advocacy group, reported this on his Telegram channel. Krisevich was arrested on June 11, 2021, following a political performance in which he shot into the air from a modified Makarov pistol firing blank cartridges, and then “shot himself” in the head, also with a blank.