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By: The opinion Posted Mar 29, 2023, 1:50 am EDT
A drawing made by a Russian minor against the war in Ukraine began a persecution against his father who in the end it led to his being sentenced to two years in prison.
According to AP, this Tuesday, a Russian court sentenced Alexei Moskalyov to two years in prisona single father, a case that started after his daughter’s school drawing opposed the invasionaccording to his lawyer and activists, and that he continued with some posts on the father’s social networks.
His 13-year-old daughter María, who has lived in an orphanage since the case against her father beganwrote him a letter of support for his trial, according to his lawyer, telling him: “Dad, you are my hero.”
Moskalyov, 54 years old, was accused of repeatedly discrediting the Russian military for a series of posts on social media about Russian atrocities in Ukraine and in which he made reference to the “terrorist” regime in Moscow, which he insists he did not do.
But, according to his lawyer and the activists who supported him throughout the case and trial, his problems began last spring after his 13-year-old daughter, Maria, I did an anti-war drawing at Yefremov School No. 9 in which missiles appeared flying over a Russian flag against a woman and a child and read: “Glory to Ukraine”.
After that fact, in April 2022, Moskalyov was fined for critical comments on social media. His apartment was searched in December and a criminal case was opened against him this month. He was placed under house arrest and his daughter was placed in an orphanage.
The accused rejected the accusations and insisted that it had nothing to do with the social media posts in question, although in a brief final statement, Moskalyov said he was “against” what the Kremlin insists on calling a “special military operation.”
Fled from house arrest
Judicial officials said that Moskalyov fled from house arrest overnight from his apartment in Yefremov, about 300 kilometers south of Moscow and a similar distance north of the Ukrainian border. He was wearing a bracelet that tracked his movements, but apparently he had taken it off.
Moskalyov’s lawyer, Vladimir Biliyenko, told the AP that he learned of his client’s disappearance during the visit. Moskalyov was scheduled to appear in court again next week. by a petition to restrict your parental rights.
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