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A court in Russia has sentenced a man to 10 days in prison for writing the slogan "stop the war" in the snow.
The slogan was scrawled with a finger in the snow at the entrance to a square in Moscow's Gorky Park. The incident happened on November 23 and the person named Dmitry Fyodorov was sent to prison the next day after being arrested by the police.
Police ruled that his actions could amount to a civil offence, under a law that targets anyone thought to have acted publicly to defame Russia's Armed Forces, an offense punishable in his case by a fine.
The new laws to crack down on dissent came shortly after tens of thousands of troops were sent to Ukraine in February 2022, which Vladimir Putin called a "special military operation".
For those opposed to Russia's war in Ukraine, speaking out in public has since become a dangerous thing, and critics say nearly 20,000 people have been arrested and more than 800 criminal cases have been opened.
Fyodorov, who admitted in court to writing the anti-war slogan, was sentenced to ten days in prison and fined for disobeying the police.
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