I’m from Russia but I now live in Europe and can’t go back to Russia. That’s because a few weeks ago a Russian court sentenced me to eight and a half years in prison for talking on Instagram, Twitter and in interviews about the war crimes in Ukraine the Russian army has committed, in Bucha, Irpin, Mariupol and Kherson.
I was charged under a new law, “on the dissemination of knowingly spreading false information about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation.” And yes, they will arrest me and put me away the moment I show up in Russia or any country “friendly to Russia”, but the point is not in taking revenge on me but in making an example of me.
