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Russian poets sentenced to prison for reciting poems against Ukraine war
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Russian authorities have detained thousands for simple acts of protest against the offensive in Ukraine, with criticism effectively outlawed.
Kamardin, 33, said his detention was particularly violent, claiming that officers raped him and forced him to film an apology video while threatening his girlfriend.
“I am not a hero, and going to prison for my beliefs was never in my plans,” he said in a statement, posted on his supporters’ channel on the social media app Telegram.
The sentences are the latest in a string of heavy punishments handed out to Russians who have protested the offensive in Ukraine, in trials critics denounce as absurd.
In mid-November, judge Oksana Demiasheva sentenced artist Alexandra Skochilenko to seven years in prison for swapping price tags with slogans criticising Russia’s attacks on Ukraine.
Skochilenko had replaced five price tags in a branch of one of Russia’s largest supermarket chains in Saint Petersburg with messages about the conflict.
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