{"id":91208,"date":"2024-01-30T08:28:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T06:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/a-retiree-from-russia-has-been-sentenced-to-prison-due-to-messages-deemed-offensive-to-the-russian-army\/"},"modified":"2024-01-30T08:28:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T06:28:00","slug":"a-retiree-from-russia-has-been-sentenced-to-prison-due-to-messages-deemed-offensive-to-the-russian-army","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/disinfo.md\/en\/a-retiree-from-russia-has-been-sentenced-to-prison-due-to-messages-deemed-offensive-to-the-russian-army\/","title":{"rendered":"A retiree from Russia has been sentenced to prison due to messages deemed offensive to the Russian army"},"content":{"rendered":"

A retired 72-year-old woman was sentenced to five and a half years in prison in Russia on charges of distributing two messages deemed to be hostile to the war waged by Vladimir Putin against Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The press service of the court in the city of Shahty, in the Rostov region (southwest), announced on Monday that Evghenia Maiboroda was found guilty of disseminating “false information”<\/i> about the Russian army and inciting “extremist acts”<\/i>.<\/main>
The septuagenarian will have to serve her sentence in a penitentiary colony under “normal regime”<\/i> because she “published content on her VKontakte page”<\/i>, the Russian equivalent of Facebook, as reported by AFP, according to Agerpres<\/a>.<\/main>

\nAccording to the NGO Setevie Svobodi, which provides assistance to political prisoners, the accused shared “information about the number of Russian soldiers killed”<\/i> and an “emotional video”<\/i> about the war.<\/main>
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Evghenia Maiboroda justified her decision to publish this information because her “brother woke up under the rubble of a building destroyed by shelling in Dnipro”<\/i>, a city in central Ukraine.
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