Russia: father tried because of cartoon against 13-year-old daughter's offensive in Ukraine
Alexei Moskaliov, 54, at the window of his apartment, under house arrest © AFP
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In Efremov, a small town 300 km from Moscow, a court ordered the maintenance of Alexey Moskaliov's house arrest, against the advice of the Public Prosecutor's Office. The 54-year-old faces three years in prison for an anti-war cartoon his 13-year-old daughter made at school last year.
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With our correspondent in Moscow, Jean-Didier Revoin
It is at his home that Alexey Moskaliov will wait for the end of his trial and not in prison, as requested by the public prosecutor. He faces a three-year prison sentence for repeatedly discrediting the Russian military in comments posted on the Russian equivalent of the "friends from before" network.
But it is a drawing of his daughter Maria, aged 12 at the time of the facts and whom he raises alone, which is at the origin of his troubles with the Russian justice. About a year ago, when students in her class were asked to make drawings to support soldiers, Maria depicted missiles heading at a woman and child with a Ukrainian flag.
Alerted, the director of the school called the police who searched the networks on which her father was active to unearth comments described as hostile to the power and activities of the Russian army in Ukraine.
Under house arrest since 1 March, he can no longer see his daughter who was placed in a home on the same date. Worse, he even risks being stripped of parental authority in a trial that is due to open on April 6. A tragic consequence of the restrictions on freedom of expression since the beginning of the special operation of Russian forces in Ukraine.
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