The 2nd Western District Military Court, at an off-site hearing in Lipetsk, sentenced Daniil Klyuka, an art teacher from the Lipetsk region, to 20 years in prison. This was reported in the political prisoner support group.
Judging by the case file on the court website, Klyuka was found guilty of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) and facilitating terrorist activities (Part 1.1 of the article 205.1 CC). He must spend the first five years of his sentence in prison, the remaining 15 in a maximum security colony. Klyuka was also fined 500 thousand rubles.
The investigation called the teacher “a supporter of anti-Russian views” and accused him of transferring 20 thousand rubles to the crypto wallet of the Ukrainian Azov regiment, writes “First Department”. According to Klyuka himself, he transferred money to his brother from Lugansk, and FSB officers “persistently asked him to admit” that they were intended for Azov.
Klyuka was sent to a pre-trial detention center in February 2023. The teacher said that he was detained after a denunciation from former school colleagues who told the FSB that Klyuka drew on newspapers and was “interested in explosives.” The teacher drew on a local newspaper, to which he had a subscription, “mostly horns, mustaches, beards.”
“When the Great Patriotic War began and materials justifying the war appeared in the newspaper, I continued my artistic activity, but forgot to take it home. Once they found him, called him in for a conversation and fired him. They accused me of Nazism and said that “I have dirt in my head,” wrote Klyuka from the pre-trial detention center.
After his dismissal, former colleagues complained to the security forces about him. The teacher says he was followed for a week and a half, and then the school principal called him and asked him to come “to sort out the paperwork.” When Klyuka went to school, he was detained.