Pussy Riot member sentenced in absentia to 6 years in jail

Shtein, 27, was discovered responsible for spreading “warfare fakes” about March 2022 put up on X, through which she accused Russian troopers captured by Ukraine of “bombing international cities and killing individuals,” Russian impartial information outlet Mediazona reported.

No less than 19,855 individuals have been detained in Russia for expressing anti-war views since President Vladimir Putin ordered a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, by OVD-Data. This gaggle screens crackdowns on dissent.

These were discovered responsible for spreading “false data” about Russia’s military danger and ten years in jail.

The Moscow courtroom mentioned that Shtein, who served as a Moscow municipal deputy till 2022, would start her sentence after being deported to Russia.

Band members have acquired asylum in Iceland.

Pussy Riot, a feminist opposition group, rose to prominence by donning balaclavas and storming into Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral in February 2012, shouting out a track towards Putin. A lot of its members have been jailed in Russia.

Simply weeks after the invasion of Ukraine started, Shtein fled home arrest in Moscow together with her girlfriend and fellow Pussy Riot member Maria Alyokhina.

Alyokhina informed The New York Instances that the pair donned the ever-present lime-green uniforms of Moscow’s meals supply couriers to evade police and snuck out of the town, ultimately reaching Lithuania.

They settled in Iceland, which granted them citizenship in Could 2023, by native media there.

Prosecutors had requested an eight-and-a-half yr sentence for Shtein, who on Wednesday joked in a put-upon X that her mom had “wagered” they might ask for nine years.