Russian artist sentenced to 7 years in prison for anti-war messages

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Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 and charged with spreading false information about the military after replacing price tags with ones that decried Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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00:00 Russian artist Alexandra Skotulenko has been sentenced to seven years in prison by St.

00:05 Petersburg court, charged with spreading false information about the Russian armed forces.

00:12 The 33-year-old replaced price tags in a supermarket with anti-war messages denouncing Russia`s

00:18 invasion of Ukraine.

00:20 She was detained in April last year after Moscow adopted a law effectively criminalizing

00:26 any public comments about the war that deviate from the official Kremlin line.

00:32 [WHOOSH]

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