Two men have been arrested for hanging an anti-war banner reading “f**k the war” from a building in Saint Petersburg, the former Leningrad, in Russia.
A statement obtained from the press service of the Courts of Saint Petersburg on Wednesday, June 8, read: “The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg brought Dmitry Platon (homeless person) and Igor Kuznetsov to administrative responsibility for committing an offense under Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offences of the Russian Federation.”
The statement added that the reason for their arrest had been for placing an “uprising poster with bad words” on 32 Vosstaniya Street in the city of Saint Petersburg, Russia’s cultural capital.
