Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in April 2022 after replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans decrying the invasion.
Russian authorities on Wednesday demanded an eight-year prison term for an artist and musician who was jailed after speaking out against Moscow's war in Ukraine.Sasha Skochilenko was arrested in her native St. Petersburg in April 2022 on charges of spreading false information about the military after replacing supermarket price tags with antiwar slogans decrying the invasion.
At another hearing, she burst into tears after the judge rejected a request for a break so that she could eat or at least use the bathroom.Russia's most prominent human rights group and 2022 Nobel Peace Prize winner, Memorial, has declared Skochilenko a political prisoner.Amnesty International has declared Skochilenko 'a prisoner of conscience,' which the group defines as 'someone who has not used or advocated violence or hatred and is imprisoned solely because of who they are.
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