The Konakovo City Court of the Tver Region has given real terms to Alexander Martynov and Lyudmila Razumova, a married couple persecuted because of anti-war posts on social networks and graffiti. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to the lawyers of the convicts.
Razumova was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony, Martynov — six and a half years. They were found guilty of posting «fakes» about the army (point «e» of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code) and vandalism motivated by political hatred (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code). During the debate, the prosecution requested that both be sentenced to seven years in prison.
According to investigators, the couple left anti-war graffiti in the villages and towns of the Tver region. In particular, with the help of a stencil, they left a drawing “in the form of a merger of two people: V.V. Putin and A. Hitler.” The defendants also wrote anti-war graffiti on the walls of residential buildings and shops, such as the phrases: “Putler kaput”, “Putin is war” and “Ukraine, forgive us.”
In addition, the couple posted publications on the course of the war in Ukraine in Odnoklassniki. In particular, Martynov wrote about the killings of civilians in Mariupol and the shelling of residential buildings in Kherson. Razumova was charged with six entries in the social network — also about the killings of the civilian population and the shelling of Ukrainian cities, in some of the posts Russian soldiers were called «rashists» and «vata-fascists».
Initially, a criminal case was opened only under the article about «fake» about the army — this happened in March 2022, later the couple was charged with an article about vandalism. After the initiation of the case, the accused were sent to a pre-trial detention center. Razumova was kept in solitary confinement for a long time. The administration of the pre-trial detention center refused to place her with other women under the pretext of the charges imputed to her.
In November 2022, the prosecutor already requested punishment for Martynov and Razumova — they were asked to be sentenced to seven and a half years in prison. Later, Razumova refused to plead guilty to the case, despite the fact that she had previously confessed, after which the investigation in the case resumed.