Russia: Two-year prison sentence for child's drawing – DW – 03/29/2023
A Russian court has sentenced a single father to two years in a penal colony after his daughter drew an anti-war picture in class last year.
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A Russian court has sentenced a single father to two years in a penal colony after his daughter drew an anti-war picture in class last year.
Russians who are opposed to their country’s invasion of Ukraine have been contending for the last year with a series of military censorship laws under which they risk stiff fines or jail time for repeat offences.
Russians who are opposed to their country’s invasion of Ukraine have been contending for the last year with a series of military censorship laws under which they risk stiff fines or jail time for repeat offences.
The picture was drawn in April 2022 by then 12-year-old Masha Moskaleva.
Masha, now 13, is in a children’s home after Russian authorities placed her father under house arrest.