The Russian police continue in the “discreditation” matters of the Russian armed. Anna Alexandrova, a hairdresser from St. Petersburg, was sentenced on Tuesday, April 15 to a five-year and two months prison sentence for having transmitted false news about the Russian army, informing the BBC and the France-Presse (AFP) agency.
The 47 -year -old hairdresser, and mother of two children, was first arrested in November 2023 by eight messages against the war he had shared through two anonymous accounts in the Russian social network Vkontakte.
After his arrest, Anna Alexandrova had denied having had the publication of these messages on social networks, insisting that the case was motivated by a festor in a neighbor.
More than 3,300 cases for the “discreditation” of the army
With the British channel, his neighbor said he complained to prosecutors after Anna Alexandrova had sent her daughter photos of the war in Ukraine.
Although Anna Alexandrova denied having sent images of the war to her neighbor, the court sent him to a penitentiary colony and ordered him to no longer publish images over the next three years.
At the same time, the lawyers of a municipal councilor in Moscow, sentenced in July 2022 to the first prison ruling by law by “false news”, filed a complaint against the crime before the Russian Constitutional Court.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion, the Russian police have opened more than 3,300 cases for the “discreditation” of the army, said an NGO on Friday, a crime that entered into force in early March to silence the criticisms of The offensive in Ukraine.
Source: BFM TV
