Russians prosecutors ask to be imposed on artist, Yulia Tsvetkovaa three-year and two-month prison sentence to be served in a special detention camp for of sketches representing women.
THE visual and a feminist, 29, is charged for the production and distribution of pornographic materialexplained her mother Anna Hadireva yesterday Tuesday.
The Komsomolsk court in Amur, in the Russian Far East, is expected to announce its verdict on July 17.
Tsvetkova faces, if convicted, sentence of up to six years imprisonment. Her prosecution has been described as arbitrary by international human rights organizations.
Known for defending the rights of the LGBTQI community in Russiahas been repeatedly convicted for sketching pairs of same-sex couples.
She has repeatedly received threats against her lifeshe said in view of her trial at the German Agency.
The ongoing lawsuit concerns her collection of sketches under the general title “Woman is not a doll”which he uploaded to social networking sites.
Several media, art figures, human rights activists and politicians in Russia have criticized her referral to trial.
Police, according to RES-EIA, arrested supporters who were involved in protest rallies against her prosecution.
Tsvetkova rejects the accusation that her work has a pornographic character. She emphasizes that she and her mother have been repeatedly targeted by hate speech. «It is unbearable. They threaten us that they will shoot us, that they will burn us” says.
Among other things, the NGOs Memorial and Amnesty International characterize the prosecution of Yulia Tsvetkova as political.
The case began in November 2019, when the young woman spent four months in house arrest, before being released on condition that she did not leave the city. When her trial began last year, she went on a hunger strike.
Source: News Beast
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