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A schoolgirl from St. Petersburg, who received a four-year sentence for posting photos of RDC fighters, reported threats of torture.

About it Eva Bagrova She spoke at today's hearing of the appellate court, which rejected her appeal against the sentence.

How to сообщает SOTAvision, immediately after her arrest, the schoolgirl was interrogated without a legal representative, threatened with torture, and also promised to torture her father and 19-year-old brother. Danila BagrovHe is a political prisoner, got Nine years for preparation for "treason" and "participation in a terrorist organization"—he was charged with attempting to join the Russian Volunteer Corps, which is fighting on the side of the Ukrainian Armed Forces against Russia.

“They showed me a photo of a beaten man and hinted that I could end up in his place if the investigator didn’t like what I said,” journalists quote the schoolgirl's testimony.

At the appeal hearing, it was revealed that another minor was involved in Eva Bagrova's criminal case, suspected of distributing leaflets. However, he could not be prosecuted because he was under 14 years old. He also testified in court that he had been pressured.

Bagrova's defense noted that the investigation did not find any biological traces of her on the leaflets containing photographs of the RDC fighters.

Eighth-grader Eva Bagrova was delayed in December 2024. She was accused of placing portraits of the founders of the RDC on a school display board. Denis Kapustin и Alexey Levkin (Both are listed as terrorists and extremists by Rosfinmonitoring.) Under each photo, Bagrova allegedly wrote the caption "Honored Hero of Russia." These photos were posted for three days; only then were they noticed and the police were called. The schoolgirl was held in pretrial detention for three months; since March of last year, she has been under house arrest, and in October, the court appointed She received a 4-year prison sentence for “justifying terrorism and assisting terrorist activity.” 

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