A court sentenced a blogger from Samara to 10 months of forced labor for "tickling" the Motherland's breast. She was banned from social media for two years.
Alena Agafonova released in the courtroom under a written undertaking not to leave the city.
Journalists сообщаютShe was brought to the sentencing in handcuffs, looking dejected and crying. At her request, photography and video recording were prohibited in the courtroom.
When the prosecutor read out the indictment with a detailed description of the “crime,” Agafonova were shaking hands and was hysterical. She admitted her guilt in full.
Prosecutor requested release her in the courtroom, sentence her to one year of forced labor and ban her from blogging for the next four years.
Lawyer Dmitry Zhadchenko considered such a punishment excessively harsh and, “taking into account the realities of modern times,” asked that a ban on internet use not be introduced.
«My client realized her actions on the very first day., journalists quote him. She learned this lesson for the rest of her life."
Agafonova voiced the same request, explaining that social networks are her source of income.
A criminal case against a 23-year-old blogger from Samara excited last summer: she was accused of rehabilitating Nazism and desecrating burial sites for walking along Volgograd She virtually "tickled" the breast of the Motherland.
According to these articles she threatened Up to five years in prison. Agafonova has been in pretrial detention since February. She called herself a "patriot of this country," explained that she knew nothing about the Battle of Stalingrad and did not want to "offend the dignity of the fallen soldiers" by publishing her video.
Meanwhile, Motherland covered stained after a 668 million ruble restoration. According to a Volgograd artist Philippenzo, this happened "out of shame for the homeland that it symbolizes."
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