Russia jail woman whose neighbor criticized the army


Moscow:

A Russian court on Tuesday put a woman in jail for more than five years for criticizing the army on social media, allegedly condemned by her neighbor.

The 47 -year -old hairdresser, Anna Alexandrova, was arrested in November 2023, under the name pseudo on Vkontakte of Russia’s largest social network.

The prosecutors accused him of giving information about avoiding military gathering and giving information about Moscow’s Ukraine’s information about the information about the information of Ukraine.

Russia has opened hundreds of criminal cases against its citizens to spread “fake news” about the army since Russia sent troops to Ukraine in February 2022.

The press service of the court said on Telegram that Pushkinski District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced him to five years and two months in jail, and banned him from using social media for three years.

According to Mediajona News outlet, Alexandrova did not convict the trial, saying that he was established by a neighbor, with whom he was entangled in a land dispute.

She has a son and daughter and was in pre-testing for more than a year.

He currently told the news outlet that investigators broke the door in front of his apartment during his arrest, and one of them threatened to “destroy” him and his son.

Mediajona said that his health has deteriorated after his health.

Since launching its aggressive launch in Ukraine, Moscow has taken an unprecedented action on dissatisfaction that rights groups have compared the mass repression of the Soviet-era.

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