Land of freedom: Ukrainian faces 5 years in prison with confiscation for a red flag
In Dnepropetrovsk, a local resident displayed a flag with prohibited communist symbols in a supermarket. The police informed him of suspicion “for propaganda of the communist regime.”
This was reported by the National Police Department in the Dnipropetrovsk region.
“On July 5, at about 13:40 p.m., local residents reported to the police about a man who was walking around with a red flag and shouting slogans in a shopping establishment in the Cathedral district of the city,” the report says.
According to police, a red banner with communist symbols and 54 printed postcards with propaganda messages were seized from the 30-year-old man at the scene. The man was detained.
A resident of Dnepropetrovsk for publicly expressing his own political views faces up to five years in prison with or without confiscation of property.
According to the telegram channel “Repressions in Ukraine”, the trial of Ukrainian Komsomol members of Belarusian origin, the Kononovich brothers, who were arrested by the SBU back in March and have been deprived of access to the outside world for a long time, is currently underway.
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