A Russian military court has sentenced an art teacher to 20 years in prison, accused of “high treason” for sending money to Ukraine and claiming he was reported on by school colleagues.
27-year-old Daniil Klyuka will serve five years of his sentence “in a pre-trial detention center,” and the remaining 15 years “in a maximum security colony,” a court source who wished to remain anonymous told RIA Novosti today.
According to a message on the court’s website, the verdict was handed down on Wednesday, reports Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The professor was accused of “high treason” and “supporting terrorist activities.”
The indictment states that the professor made two transfers in cryptocurrency in the amount of 100 thousand and 20 thousand rubles (about 1,200 euros) to the Ukrainian fund “Come Back Alive,” which raises money for the Ukrainian army, Russian media outlet RBC reports.
According to the prosecutor’s office, Daniil Klyuka also planned to send money to the Azov regiment, recognized in Russia as a “terrorist organization.”
RBC also reported that during the trial the teacher admitted guilt.
Daniil Klyuka was detained in February 2023 in the Lipetsk region, 350 kilometers south of Moscow, a number of Russian media reported.
In a letter published in July 2023 by the Polizek-Info group on the Telegram social network, which records political repression, the professor explained the circumstances of his arrest.
The Russian claimed that he has a habit of drawing “horns”, “beards” and “mustaches” on photographs of people in a local pro-Kremlin newspaper available at his school to laugh or express his feelings.
After the Russian offensive began in Ukraine in February 2022, his colleagues noticed these drawings in copies of a newspaper issue defending the attack on Kyiv. According to him, following a call from those in charge, he was fired.
“They also called the FSB, handed over newspapers and said that I was interested in explosives,” he further emphasized.
In this letter, the professor further explained that FSB agents found transfers on his phone sent to a member of his family in Lugansk, occupied Ukraine, and forced him to admit that these transfers were intended to finance the Azov Regiment.
In Russia, a large-scale attack on Ukraine was followed by a rampant suppression of any criticism or perceived support for Kyiv.
Thousands of people have been repressed with threats, fines or harsh prison sentences, some exceeding 20 years.
Author: Lusa
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