In Russia, a college student was sentenced to prison for writing a slogan saying ‘Support Ukraine’ on a Wi-Fi network.
According to Britain’s BBC on the 10th (local time), a student at Moscow State University (MSU) was found guilty in a Moscow court on the 7th of ‘public display of Nazi or extremist organization symbols’ and was sentenced to 10 days in prison. .
He is accused of changing the name of his university dorm room Wi-Fi network to ‘Slava Ukraine’, which means ‘Glory to Ukraine’. This phrase is also used by Ukrainian citizens to emphasize unity or to ridicule Russia, which invaded their country.
A police officer discovered the Wi-Fi network and reported it to the authorities, and the police searched his room in the university dormitory, secured his PC and Wi-Fi router, and arrested him on the 6th.
The court said that the defendant “used his Wi-Fi network to promote the slogan ‘Glory to Ukraine’ to an unspecified number of people within the range of Wi-Fi radio waves.”
Recently, Russia has strengthened its internal crackdown on the invasion of Ukraine. Opponents of the Putin regime and the war in Ukraine are being arrested and imprisoned one after another, including more than 400 people arrested just for leaving flowers at the memorial site of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died mysteriously while serving his sentence in a Siberian prison last month.
Amnesty International (AI) said that more than 21,000 anti-war activists were targeted by repressive laws in Russia last year.
This group pointed out that Russian authorities are using unfair trials to impose excessive prison sentences and large fines to suppress even the slightest dissent.
Choi Jae-ho,
Source: Donga
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