The young convicted teacher claims to have sent money to a member of his family who lives in Lugansk, in occupied Ukraine. But he was forced to admit that the sums sent were in fact to be used to finance Ukraine’s war activities.
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A Russian military court has sentenced a drawing teacher to 20 years in prison accused of “high treason” for sending money to Ukraine and who claimed to have been denounced by colleagues at his school.
Daniil Kliouka, aged 27, will serve 5 years of his sentence “in a remand center” and the other 15 “in a strict regime colony,” an anonymous spokesperson told the Ria Novosti news agency on Thursday. of this jurisdiction.
According to a notice on the court’s website, the verdict was delivered the day before. The accused was prosecuted for “high treason” and “support for terrorist activities”.
Donations of 1000 and 200 francs
The prosecution, underlined the Russian media RBK, claims that he had made two cryptocurrency transfers worth 100,000 and 20,000 rubles (approximately 1,000 and 200 francs) to a Ukrainian fund, “Come back alive “, which raises funds for the Ukrainian army.
Still according to the prosecution, he also planned to send money to the Azov regiment, designated a “terrorist organization” in Russia.
The RBK media explains that he pleaded guilty during his trial.
Doodles for laughs
Daniil Klyuka was arrested in February 2023 in the Lipetsk region, 350 km south of Moscow, several Russian media reported. In a letter published in July 2023 by the Telegram group Politzek-Info, covering political repressions, he returned to the circumstances of his arrest.
He claimed to have the habit of scribbling “horns”, “beards” and “mustaches” on the characters of a local pro-Kremlin newspaper available at his school, to “laugh” or “express” his “feelings”. “.
“Confessions under duress”
Then, after the Russian offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, his colleagues noticed these drawings on the copies of this newspaper then defending the attack against kyiv: he was summoned, then fired.
“They also called the FSB (Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation) and gave them these diaries and said that I was interested in explosives,” he wrote.
In this letter, he claimed that FSB agents had found transfers in his phone sent to a member of his family from Lugansk, in occupied Ukraine, and had “forced” him to confess that these transfers were intended to finance the regiment. Azov.
In Russia, the large-scale attack on Ukraine was followed by an unbridled crackdown on any criticism or perceived support of kyiv.
Thousands of people have been repressed, with threats, fines or heavy prison sentences, some of which exceed 20 years.
