Jailed in Russia for repost that Crimea is Ukraine.

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Channel: NewsFromUkraine · 2016 · News & Politics

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On May 5, 2016, Zavolzhskiy district court in the Russian city of Tver sentenced a local citizen Andrey Bubeyev for reposting in Vkontakte social network an article claiming "Crimea is Ukraine" to two years three months in a penal colony. 

Persecution was launched after the man reposted an article titled Crimea is Ukraine" originally posted by a publicist Boris Stomakhin and an image on the same subject on his profile page on VKontakte. 

Here are those 2 posts for which Bubeyev was sentenced to 2 years in jail: 
1) http://zapretno.info/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/6.jpg
2) https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fstomahin.info%2Farticl%2Fkrym.htm&edit-text=&act=url

During the debate, the public prosecutor asked to sentence Bubeyev to three and a half years in prison. Bubeyev claims that he is being persecuted for his beliefs, pleading not guilty.


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