Russian Activist Daria Kozyreva Sentenced to Nearly Three Years for Anti-War Protests

Russia court sentences 19-year-old activist for poetic protest of Ukraine conflict

The Petrogradsky District Court of St. Petersburg in Russia sentenced activist Daria Kozyreva to two years and eight months in prison for “discrediting the armed forces” by using 19th-century Ukrainian poetry and graffiti in protest of Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to local media sources. Kozyreva began her anti-war activism in 2022. That year, she was detained for spray-painting the words “Murderers, you bombed it. Judases” on a sculpture …

Darya Kosyreva put a verse of poetry on the statue of a Ukrainian poet and must now be detained for two years and eight months. The Russian judiciary condemned the young woman for »discrediting the army«.

A 19-year-old woman was sentenced this week by a court in St. Petersburg for having "discredited" the Russian army, at the end of a hearing in which she defended without browing Ukraine's "sovereignty". Daria Kozyreva had been arrested after pasting verses of a major Ukrainian poet on a statue of the latter in the Russian city. For several years already, the young Russian has multiplied the judicial troubles for protesting the war in Ukraine. - …

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Russia jails teenager for condemning Ukraine conflict

A Russian court has jailed Darya Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the conflict in Ukraine. At the court proceedings, the 19-year-old Kozyreva was found guilty of repeatedly discrediting the Russian army after she put up a poster with lines of Ukrainian verse on a public square. According to a trial transcript, the teenager pleaded not guilty, calling the case against her one big fabrication. She was…

A Russian court has sentenced Daria Kozyreva, a 19-year-old activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to nearly 3 years in prison for...