A woman was today sentenced to eight days in prison by a Russian court for writing “No to war” on the ballot she cast in Russia's presidential election. This woman “took a ballot and wrote 'No to war' on the back with a red marker and then put the ballot in the ballot box,” the Dzerzhinsk District Court of St. Petersburg reported. The court ruled that the accused in this way “damaged state property and discredited the Russian armed forces” and imposed a fine of 40,000 rubles (about 400 euros) and eight days of administrative detention. Vladimir Putin was re-elected president on Sunday in a landslide that was denounced as “unreal” by the exiled opposition. Opposition supporters showed up at the same time, Sunday noon, at polling stations, leading to long queues in some stations, notably in front of Russian embassies abroad. Others cast an invalid ballot by writing in the name of dissident Alexei Navalny, who died in prison […]
Source: News Beast
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