Former Russian Mayor faces jail for anti-war protest!

 

Yevgeny Roizman

The former Mayor of Ekaterinburg, Yevgeny Roizman, has been arrested and faces up to five years in jail for calling the war in the Ukraine an 'invasion'. Under strict new Russian laws, people face arrest and prosecution for protesting against the war or for criticising the armed forces, or for calling Putin's revanchist war in the Ukraine, a 'war' or an 'invasion'. 

According to the OVD-Info human rights group, more than 224 Russians are facing jail time for calling the conflict a 'war' or 'invasion'. Nearly 16,500 people have been detained across Russia for protesting against the war, since February. Russian citizens who hold up placards protesting against the war, are quickly arrested and bundled into police vans and taken away.