Poet Alexander Byvshev was sentenced to seven years in prison for "calls to terrorism" and "fakes."
Court in Moscow sentenced poet from Oryol Oblast Alexander Byvshev to seven years in prison for "calls to terrorism" and "dissemination of military fakes motivated by political hatred."
The project reported this "Support for Political Prisoners. Memorial" citing an activist Anastasia Shevchenko, to whom Byvshev informed about the verdict in a personal letter.
An anti-war poem was the reason for the prosecution under the article on calls for terrorism. "To the Russian officers or a rhetorical question", where the author suggests to find "Russian Stauffenberg"According to investigators, by mentioning Stauffenberg, the author is calling for murder. Vladimir PutinA case of "fake news" was opened due to a post with a photograph of a destroyed village near Kiev.
NotMoscow Wrote Alexander Byvshev, a 51-year-old poet and German teacher from Oryol, has been in pretrial detention since February 2023. The poet is listed as a terrorist and extremist.
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