MPonomarenko air is one prisoner of consciousnessmother of two daughters. He is in prison only for not having bent on Moscow propaganda and exercising his right to freedom of expression. Today, March 27, the district court of Shipunovsky has imposed them A further year and 10 months of detention, in addition to the six who is serving, By ordering that, at the end of the sentence, it is subjected to an outpatient psychiatric treatment.
Who is the Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko, condemned to have told Mariupol
Russian blogger and journalist of the online newspaper “Rusnews”. She had been arrested on April 23, 2022 with The accusation of having released “consciously false information on the Russian armed forces”. The Telegram video (canceled almost immediately) for which he entered the Cremlin objectives contained his story of the bombing of the Mariupol theater, in Ukraineby Russian forces. With a brief comment that denounced the death of civilians who were refugees inside.
A Barnoul Court, in the Altai Krai region, had sentenced her to Six years of imprisonment and the ban to carry out the journalistic activity for five years after release. The sentence was confirmed on appeal. Since he is in prison, his mental health has been very deteriorated. At the beginning of March he attempted suicide and his lawyer reiterated his intention to take his life “due to the continuous episodes of bullying by prison staff».
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The mistreatment in the penal colony of Shipunovo
Today Maria Ponomarenko is serving the sentence In the Ik-6 criminal colony, in the village of Shipunovo, 175 km from Barnaul. During detention he suffered mistreatment, including imprisonment in a disciplinary cell (Shizo). A particularly hard -punitive form of punitive detention, in narrow and isolation conditions, used for Break the resistance of prisoners Through severe restrictions and deprivations.
He has been confined several times in the Shizo cell for pretentious reasons and has been deprived of adequate medical care, including assistance for worsening his mental health.
New sentence for the Russian journalist Maria Ponomarenko after the attempted suicide in prison
The sentence was extended with apretext of two guards attacks. “Clearly A pretext to punish it For his refusal to change his opinion and for his commitment to justice », explains Natalia Zviagina, director of Amnesty International Russia. But this further condemnation «marks a new level of repression by the authorities. Since the beginning of the war of aggression against Ukraine, the Russian authorities have systematically used and unscrupulous tactics to silence dissent, resorting to unfounded accusations to impress political dissidents». These are the effects of the so -called “war censorship” legislation.
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The further persecution of a prisoner is an increasingly widespread practice in Russia. New prison sanctions are imposed on those who are imprisoned for political reasons. A similar case is that of Aleksei Gorinov, another prominent voice against the war, who suffered similar measures from the authorities.
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