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Olesya Krivtsova (20) yupo kwenye uangalizi maalum akituhumiwa kuhusika kwa ugaidi baada ya kuweka maudhui katika ukurasa wake wa Instagram akiikosoa Serikali ya Urusi kwenye vita dhidi ya Ukraine.
Amefungwa kifaa mwilini ambacho kinaonesha mwelekeo wake popote alipo akifuatiliwa na Polisi wakati kesi yake ikiendelea, yupo nyumbani na hatakiwi kutoka, kuwasiliana kwa kutumia simu na kutumia mitandao.
Olesya ambaye ni Mwanafunzi wa Chuo Kikuu cha Northern Federal kilichopo Arkhangelsk, aliweka maudhui hayo Oktoba 2022, amesema ameongezwa katika orodha ya magaidi na watu wenye msimamo mkali dhidi ya Serikali ya Urusi.
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Ukraine war: The Russian student under arrest for an Instagram story
University student Olesya Krivtsova has been missing a lot of classes.
That's because 20-year-old Olesya is under house arrest. She has an electronic tag on her leg. Police can monitor her every move.
Her alleged crime? Olesya was arrested for anti-war posts on social media. One of them concerned last October's explosion on the bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea.
"I posted an Instagram story about the bridge," Olesya tells the BBC, "reflecting on how Ukrainians were happy with what had happened."
She had also shared a friend's post about the war.
"I I never imagined anyone could get such a long prison sentence for posting something on the internet," Olesya says. "I'd seen reports of crazy verdicts in Russia, but I hadn't paid much attention and continued to speak out."
A student of the Northern Federal University in Arkhangelsk, Olesya has now been added to Russia's official list of terrorists and extremists.
"When I realised I'd been put on the same list as school shooters and the Islamic State group I thought it was crazy," recalls Olesya.
Under the rules of her house arrest she's banned from talking on the phone and going online.
Olesya has a striking image tattooed on her right leg - Russian President Vladimir Putin depicted as a spider, with an Orwellian inscription: "Big Brother is watching you."
It appears that in Olesya's case, it wasn't Big Brother watching her, but her fellow students
"A friend showed me a post about me in a chat," Olesya says, "about how I was against the 'special military operation'. Most of the people in this chat were history students. They were discussing whether to denounce me to the authorities."
The BBC has seen extracts from the group chat.
In one comment, Olesya is accused of writing "provocative posts of a defeatist and extremist character. This is out of place for war-time. It must be nipped in the bud".
"First let's try to discredit her. If she doesn't get it, let the security services deal with it."
"Denunciation is the duty of a patriot," someone else writes.
Later, when the list of prosecution witnesses was read out in court, Olesya recognised the names from the student chat.
It's one year since the Kremlin launched its "special military operation" in Ukraine - the term it uses for Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbour. Within weeks of the assault, President Putin was calling on the Russian public to separate "true patriots from scum and traitors".
Source: BBC
Amefungwa kifaa mwilini ambacho kinaonesha mwelekeo wake popote alipo akifuatiliwa na Polisi wakati kesi yake ikiendelea, yupo nyumbani na hatakiwi kutoka, kuwasiliana kwa kutumia simu na kutumia mitandao.
Olesya ambaye ni Mwanafunzi wa Chuo Kikuu cha Northern Federal kilichopo Arkhangelsk, aliweka maudhui hayo Oktoba 2022, amesema ameongezwa katika orodha ya magaidi na watu wenye msimamo mkali dhidi ya Serikali ya Urusi.
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Ukraine war: The Russian student under arrest for an Instagram story
University student Olesya Krivtsova has been missing a lot of classes.
That's because 20-year-old Olesya is under house arrest. She has an electronic tag on her leg. Police can monitor her every move.
Her alleged crime? Olesya was arrested for anti-war posts on social media. One of them concerned last October's explosion on the bridge linking Russia to annexed Crimea.
"I posted an Instagram story about the bridge," Olesya tells the BBC, "reflecting on how Ukrainians were happy with what had happened."
She had also shared a friend's post about the war.
"I I never imagined anyone could get such a long prison sentence for posting something on the internet," Olesya says. "I'd seen reports of crazy verdicts in Russia, but I hadn't paid much attention and continued to speak out."
A student of the Northern Federal University in Arkhangelsk, Olesya has now been added to Russia's official list of terrorists and extremists.
"When I realised I'd been put on the same list as school shooters and the Islamic State group I thought it was crazy," recalls Olesya.
Under the rules of her house arrest she's banned from talking on the phone and going online.
Olesya has a striking image tattooed on her right leg - Russian President Vladimir Putin depicted as a spider, with an Orwellian inscription: "Big Brother is watching you."
It appears that in Olesya's case, it wasn't Big Brother watching her, but her fellow students
"A friend showed me a post about me in a chat," Olesya says, "about how I was against the 'special military operation'. Most of the people in this chat were history students. They were discussing whether to denounce me to the authorities."
The BBC has seen extracts from the group chat.
In one comment, Olesya is accused of writing "provocative posts of a defeatist and extremist character. This is out of place for war-time. It must be nipped in the bud".
"First let's try to discredit her. If she doesn't get it, let the security services deal with it."
"Denunciation is the duty of a patriot," someone else writes.
Later, when the list of prosecution witnesses was read out in court, Olesya recognised the names from the student chat.
It's one year since the Kremlin launched its "special military operation" in Ukraine - the term it uses for Russia's full-scale invasion of its neighbour. Within weeks of the assault, President Putin was calling on the Russian public to separate "true patriots from scum and traitors".
Source: BBC
