Russian man gets two years in prison for reposting that Crimea should be returned to Ukraine
Andrei Bubeev, a Russian father of two is to spend the next two years and three months in a minimum security prison colony for reposting an article entitled “Crimea is Ukraine” and a cartoon toothpaste tube with the caption “Squeeze Russia out of yourself” on a social network page.
No more was needed for the original Tver City Court ruling on May 5, 2016. No arguments, including the fact that he is the sole breadwinner for a family with two small children had any effect on the Tver Regional Court which has rejected his appeal against the sentence. Although none of this was a surprise since Bubeev had been placed on Russia’s ‘List of Extremists and Terrorists’ even before the original sentence, it is profoundly disturbing. Russia is openly applying anti-extremism legislation against critics of the current regime and especially those who condemn its aggression against Ukraine.
The 41-year-old mechanical engineer from Tver had been charged over two pieces of material by others which he merely reposted on his VKontakte social network page.
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