Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko Sentenced to six years in prison for a post on a social network about an attack by Russian militants on a theater in Mariupoli her Ukrainian.

court in Barnaul V Siberia found her guilty of spreading “fake news”, in accordance with the laws passed to suppress any dissent regarding the invasion of Ukraine. He was also banned Opportunity to become a journalist within five years.

Ponomarenko he was arrested last Aprila few weeks after the bombing, for publishing that the attack was carried out by Russian aircraft, although the Russian Ministry of Defense garbage.

She is another of the Russian dissidents imprisoned for criticizing the war in Ukraine.

BBC in his text, he recalls that hundreds of citizens died when the Mariupol theater exploded in March last year.

ABOUT 1200 civilians they were looking for cover in the theater when it was bombed by Russian fighters. Ukrainian authorities initially stated that 300 people were killedbut the investigation Associated Press reported that the number is approaching them 600. Many bodies were found in the basement.

OUR international amnesty he said it’s about war crime Russian troops and OSCE International Monitoring Group stressed that he found no evidence to support Russia’s claims that Ukrainian battalion blew up the theater.

The prosecutor’s office said that Maria Ponomarenko committed criminal offense related to “knowingly false informationfor the Russian armed forces, a law introduced immediately after the invasion.

Addressing the court, she emphasized that, according to the Russian Constitution, she had not done anything illegal.

Declaring herself a patriot and pacifist oppositionist, she concluded her testimony with the words: “No totalitarian regime has ever been as strong as before its collapse.”

The journalist and activist, who has two young children, had mental health issues in prison and last year compared her pre-trial detention to torture, her lawyer said.

last summerDeputy of the Moscow City Council Alexey Gorinov, imprisoned for seven years after being caught on film speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine at a city council meeting. A few days ago, a UN working group called for his release, concluding that his detention was arbitrary and contrary to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

To him Decemberone of the most prominent figures of the Russian opposition, Mr. Ilya GasinSentenced to eight and a half years in prison for spreading “fake news” about the military after posting on YouTube his condemnation of the killing of hundreds of Ukrainian civilians in Bucha.