Olesya Krivtsova has an anti-Putin tattoo on one ankle and a bracelet that tracks her every move on the other. A 19-year-old boy from Russia’s Arkhangelsk region must wear a device under house arrest after being accused of social media posts that authorities say discredit the Russian military and justify terrorism, CNN reports.
Russian officials also added Olesya Kryvtsova to the list of terrorists and extremists along with ISIS, al-Qaeda and the Taliban for posting on Instagram a video of the Crimean Bridge explosion last October, which also criticized Russia for invading Ukraine.
Kryvtsova, a student at Arkhangelsk University (a city in northwestern Russia), also faces criminal charges of defamation of the Russian military for allegedly publishing a post allegedly critical of the war in a student discussion group on the Russian social network VK.
Currently, Kryvtsova is under house arrest in her mother’s apartment in Severodvinsk, Arkhangelsk region, with access to the Internet and other means of communication prohibited.
“Olesia’s case is not the first and it will not be the last,” Oleksiy Kitchin, the young woman’s lawyer, told CNN.
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