Daria Kozyva used poetry and graffiti of the nineteenth century to protest Russia’s war against Ukraine.
A Russian court has transmitted a prison sentence of almost three years to Daria Kozyva, a young activist who used 19th century poetry and graffiti to protest the war in Ukraine.
A witness from the Reuters news agency in the Court said Friday that Kozva, 19, was convicted of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian army after she put a poster with Ukrainian verse lines in a severe public and severe severa Ded-Lan-Lan-Lan-Lan-Lan-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LANGY SERVICE AND DIE LANGY AND DID LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LAN-LONG-LONG.
She has sentenced to two years and eight months in prison.
On Friday, Kozyreva declared himself innocent, qualifying the case against his “great manufacturing”, according to a transcription of judgment compiled by Mediazona, an independent media.
“I am not to blame. My conscience is clear,” he said, according to the Midazone transcription.
“Because the truth is never guilty.”
In December 2022, with only 17 years, Kozzyreva sprinkled the words, “murderers, you bombarded him. Judas”, in black paint in a sculpture of two interwoven hearts, erected outside the Museum of Hermitas of St. Petersburg that left with the duration of the ground to the left a siege at the earliest that year.
At the beginning of 2024, after being fed with 30,000 rubles ($ 370) for publishing on Ukraine online, Kozyreva was expelled from the Medical Faculty of the State University of St. Petersburg.
A few months later, on the second anniversary of the war, he recorded a piece of paper that contained a fragment or fresh of Taras Shevchenko, the father of modern Ukrainian literature, in a statue of him in a park by Saint Petersburg:
“Oh, bury me, then get up / and break your heavy chains / and water with the blood of the tyrants / the freedom you have given.”
Kozyreva was quickly arrested and hero in preventive detention for almost a year, until this February trial was released to dominate.
‘Punished for citing poetry’
Natalia Zviagina, director of Russia of Amnesty International, said that Friday’s verdict “is another chilling reminder of how far the Russian authorities will arrive to silence the peaceful opposition to her war in Ukraine.”
“Daria Kozyva is being punished for cite a classical Ukrainian poetry or from the nineteenth century, to speak against an unfair war and for refusing to remain silent,” he said in a statement.
“We demand the immediate and unconditional liberation of Daria Kozyreva and all imprisoned under ‘War Censorship Laws'”.
Kozzyreva is currently one of the 234 people estimated in Russia for their position against the war, according to a memorial account, a Russian rights group winning the Nobel Prize.
The judges for charges of spying and collecting confidential data have also become increasingly frequent in Russia since its large -scale invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022.
Evan Gershkovich, Wall Street Journal reporter, was arrested last year under suspicion of trying to obtain military secrets and accused of espionage, which entails a sentence of up to 20 years, and is currently a trial. The United States has designated it “badly detained” and is looking for its release.
The Russian-American journalist also Kurmaasheva was arrested last October and is waiting for the trial on positions that include not registering as a “foreign agent.” She is also stopped waiting for trial.
