19-year-old Daria Kozyrewa convicted of criticism of the war in Ukraine

The Russian court sentenced 19 -year -old Daria Kozyrewa to two years and eight months in prison, who protested against the war in Ukraine – Mediazon's independent portal informed. The 19-year-old used nineteenth-century poetry and graffiti to proclaim anti-war slogans.

Kozyrewa was found guilty of the multiple “discrediting” of the Russian army when she placed a poster with the verses of a Ukrainian poem in a public place and gave an interview to Siewierz.reali – a Russian -speaking Radio Free Europe station.

19-year-old convicted of criticism of the war

The activist pleaded not guilty, and described the matter against her as “one great invention.” “I don't feel guilty, my conscience is clean because the truth is never guilty,” she said.

In December 2022, when she was 17, Kozyrewa painted with a black paint the inscription “Murderers, you bombed it. Judas” on the sculpture in front of the Museum of the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, depicting two intertwined hearts, which was to symbolize the relationship of this city with Mariupol, almost equal to the ground by the Russian army.

In January 2024, Kozyrewa was fined in the amount of 30,000 rubles for posting entries on the Internet about Ukraineafter which it was removed from the Medical Faculty of the State University of St. Petersburg.

Opposition to the Russian invasion

A month later, on the second anniversary wars in Ukrainea young activist glued a piece of paper containing a fragment of the poem of the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko to his monument in the park in St. Petersburg. The text written on the card was “” Oh, burial me, and then uprising / and break your heavy chains / and water with the blood of tyrants. “

After this incident, Kozyrewa was arrested and detained in temporary detention for almost a year, and in February this year she was released to house arrest.

Russian organization human rights The memorial estimates that 234 people convicted of anti -war activity are in Russian prisons.