RUSSIAN POLITICIAN DETAINED FOR CRITICISING UKRAINE INVASION

Wed 24 August 2022:

A video published on social media appears to show Russian opposition politician Yevgeny Roizman being detained at his home in what is the latest apparent move by the Kremlin to punish critics of the war in Ukraine, according to a report by the Reuters news agency.

Yevgeny Roizman: Kremlin critic and ex-mayor arrested over Ukraine war comments.#YevgenyRoizman #Ukraine pic.twitter.com/vhCaBVShWN

— INDEPENDENT PRESS (@IpIndependent) August 24, 2022

#RUSSIA: Former mayor of Yekaterinburg Yevgeny Roizman has been arrested. His “crime”: making statements against the Russian invasion of #Ukraine️.
𝗪𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗳𝗶𝗮 𝙞𝙨 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁… pic.twitter.com/OiQjoZFnyR

— Igor Sushko (@igorsushko) August 24, 2022

Video of the arrest showed Roizman, a former mayor of the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, being taken away by law enforcement officials, Reuters reported.

Roizman was seen in the video telling reporters that he was being investigated under a law against discrediting the armed forces, according to the news agency. He said he was being arrested “basically for one phrase, ‘the invasion of Ukraine’”.

State news agency TASS cited Yekaterinburg security services as confirming the reason for the arrest, saying Roizman was being investigated for “discrediting the Russian army”. The offence, newly introduced after Russia’s February 24 invasion, carries a prison sentence of up to five years.

SOURCE: INDEPENDENT PRESS AND NEWS AGENCIES

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