Father of student and author of anti-war cartoon arrested in Minsk
Aleksey Moskalyov, the father of a 13-year-old student who drew an anti-war cartoon, has been arrested in Minsk. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus confirmed on Thursday, March 30, that Aleksey Moskalev, a resident of the Tula region, sentenced in Russia to two years in prison for a criminal case for “discrediting the army”, was detained in Belarus -Russia at the request of the Russian police.
The first to report this were the online editions of Mediazona and Sota. According to an unnamed Sota interlocutor, Moskalev’s whereabouts were ascertained due to the inclusion of a mobile phone in the apartment.
At the same time, the man’s lawyer, Dmitry Zakhvatov, said that he currently has no connection with the client, as Moskalev’s phone is turned off. “Confirm (detention. – Ed.) I can’t exactly, but according to indirect data, apparently everything is so,” the lawyer wrote on the Telegram channel.
In Russia, Moskalev was sentenced a few days earlier to two years in a penal colony in the case of repeated “discredit” of the Russian army. According to Justice, the man escaped from house arrest.
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In April 2022, at school No. 9 in the city of Yefremov, sixth graders were given an assignment in a fine arts class: to make drawings in support of Russian troops in Ukraine. Masha Moskaleva depicted two flags – the Russian Federation and Ukraine; on the first she wrote “No to war”, on the second – “Glory to Ukraine”. Then the principal called the police, the girl and her father were taken to the police station, Federal Security officials came to the school to “talk” with the student.
Subsequently, an administrative protocol was drawn up against the student’s father within the framework of an article about “discrediting” the Russian army, citing his anti-war comments on social media. At the end of 2022, a search was carried out in Moskalev’s apartment. A criminal case was opened against the man for repeated “disrepute” of the RF Armed Forces.
After that, Moskalev and his daughter left Efremov. After some time, lawyer Vladimir Bilienko said that the man was put on the wanted list. Moskalev was arrested on March 1, but the next day he was released under house arrest. His daughter was placed in an orphanage by the Russian authorities. Andrey Morev, vice chairman of the Moscow branch of the Yabloko party, launched a petition in early March demanding that the girl be returned home.
Source: DW
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