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An Izhevsk resident in a wheelchair was sentenced to 5.5 years in a colony for a comment made about Putin and the FSB Clique.
According to a report by SotaVision, a military court in Yekaterinburg sentenced 58-year-old Alexander Krichevsky to 5 and a half years in a Penal colony for justifying terrorism.
Comments had been made on the Telegram channel of the Chechen opposition blogger Tumso Abdurakhmanov, in which Alexander called “Putin and the FSB clique” enemies who need to be “destroyed in order to live on as peaceful neighbours.”
In his final statement, Alexander said that he’d never supported terrorism: “The murder and intimidation of innocent people does not lead to results. A speech, some arguments, and a wise ruler can lead to results. But this will not lead to anything. Violence will breed new violence and it will not end well. I categorically deny terrorism and I have never supported it. I do not plead guilty.”
Alexander moved around in a wheelchair and had a first disability group, but this wasn’t allowed to be extended in the detention centre, while before his arrest, Alexander cared for his elderly mother, who was taken to a nursing home following Alexander’s detention, where she died a month later.
“Three Thursdays changed my life,” Alexander said, continuing: “On December 19, when five FSB officers broke into my apartment and sent my mother, who needed care, to a nursing home. Another Thursday came exactly four weeks later, on which Thursday my mother, who was deprived of care, died. And the third Thursday is today.”
Details about Krichevsky’s case were analysed in full by MediaZona last year.
