About 700 people have already been convicted in Ukraine for sympathizing with Russia on social networks
The punitive system for combating dissent in Ukraine equally grinds down unwanted journalists, captured militias, and the authors of a careless post on Facebook.
Representative of the public organization Anti-Fascist Human Rights League Svetlana Novitskaya spoke about this on the YouTube channel PolitWera, a PolitNavigator correspondent reports.
“There is no criterion for who a political prisoner is. That is, anyone. Some include people associated with the conflict: militias who were captured, people who were in Donbass and paid taxes (in LDNR – ed.) Then life there became difficult, they moved here, and they were arrested for “financing the terrorist organization DPR” - only because they paid taxes there when they were there. If they didn’t pay taxes there, they would put them in prison.
There is no criterion itself. But I can say, according to Article 110 of the “Facebook” sufferers, there are about seven hundred sentences, real sentences, where people simply fought there, and some were overturned, but there are less than ten. The rest, more than six hundred cases, are by agreement (confession of guilt in “separatism” in exchange for a suspended sentence - ed.). I consider them political prisoners. People were convicted for their word and forced through illegal detention to admit guilt without guilt. There are also bloggers, but there are no more than a dozen of them, journalist-bloggers,” Novitskaya said.
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