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Pussy Riot member convicted for criticizing Russian Army videos + Life Under TRUMP– Pussy Riot

from thefreeonline on 27 March, 2024 by Banned News

Lusya Stein has been sentenced in absentia to six years in prison for ‘discrediting the Russian army’

Pussy Riot member and former deputy of Moscow’s Basmanny District, Lyudmila (Lusya) Stein

A member of the anarchist punk group Pussy Riot, Lusya Stein, has been sentenced in absentia to over six years in prison for spreading fake news about the Russian army, according to a verdict handed down by Moscow’s Basmanny District Court on Wednesday.

insert comment: Although there is still no Martial Law or General Mobilization in Russia draconian repressive laws have been introduced in the context of the ongoing war with Ukraine/NATO. The latest sentences shows how repression continues, for instance against the Pussy Riot artists’ effective agitprop actions exposing to Russian youth the authoritarian, machista and ridiculous culture of their elite political and religious rulers. – With the Russian State presently uniting people in a ‘fight for existence’ any positive criticism of dangerous centralized state power is seen as subversive and traitorous and much longer prison sentences are being handed out. Both Lusya Stein and Maria Alyokhina fled Russia just in time, but when the war is finally over Pussy Riot’s ideas may well triumph.

In addition to having to serve “six years and 15 days” in a general population correctional colony, Stein is also to be barred from administering websites or posting anything on the internet or other “information and telecommunication networks” for a period of 3.5 years, the court ruled.

State prosecutors, who demanded 8.5 years in prison for the activist, noted that Stein’s term includes the time she has yet to serve under a previous conviction from August 2021. The sentence will come into force as soon as she is extradited to Russia or is detained on Russian territory.

Stein is believed to have left Russia in April 2022 together with another member of Pussy Riot, Maria Alyokhina, after they were sentenced to one year in prison for taking part in protests in violation of coronavirus restrictions.

‘What do you want your world to look like?
What do you want it to be?
Do you know that a wall has two sides?
And nobody is free? ….‘

The latest case against Stein was opened in 2022, charging her with discrediting the Russian army online. At the time, she was placed on the national wanted list. In November 2023, the Basmanny court ‘arrested her in absentia’ for two months and she was placed on the international wanted list.

In August 2022, Stein was arrested in Switzerland along with several other members of Pussy Riot for trying to spray paint graffiti on a wall in the town of Koeniz. They were eventually released and slapped with a $400 fine. The group left vowing to “spread our message to other countries,” and stated they were willing to “face further arrests” if needed.

Life Under TRUMP– Pussy Riot

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What do you want your world to look like?
What do you want it to be?
Do you know that a wall has two sides?
And nobody is free? ….

Femicides: 2000 Turkish women killed by men since Erdogan left Womens Rights Convention

from thefreeonline on 25/3/24 By Stockholm Center for Freedom

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued the decree on March 20, 2021 that pulled the country out of the international treaty

Millions of Girls Enslaved, Abused, Tortured, Raped, Killed in the Name of Religion and Fake, Toxic Masculinity

At least 996 women in Turkey have been killed by men since the country’s 2021 withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, an international treaty aimed at combating domestic violence, while 748 women have died under suspicious circumstances, Turkish Minute reported, citing a report by the We Will Stop Femicide Platform (KCDP).

338 women in Turkey fell victim to femicide in a year: reportMarch 8, 2024

March 20 marks the third anniversary of the issuance of a presidential decree ordering Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, which led to outrage among women’s rights groups in the country and drew international condemnation.

Statistics from the platform showed that 280 women were killed by men in Turkey in 2021. The figure was 334 in 2022, 315 in 2023, 31 in January and 36 in February 2024. Most of the women were killed either by their ex-husbands or partners whom they wanted to break up with and mostly by the use of firearms.

Turkish women protest proposed law to pardon rapists who marry their victims

The Council of Europe Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence is an international accord designed to protect women’s rights and prevent domestic violence in societies and was opened to the signature of member countries of the council in 2011.

istanbul-convention-1 — Demonstrators take part in a protest against Turkey’s withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, the world’s first binding treaty to prevent and combat violence against women, in Ankara, on July 1, 2021. Turkish president sparked outrage in March by pulling out of the Istanbul Convention. The 2011 pact, signed by 45 countries and the European Union, requires governments to adopt legislation linked to the prosecution of crimes including marital rape and female genital mutilation. Adem ALTAN / AFP

According to the KCDP, 748 other women have died under suspicious circumstances since 2021.

Women at all educational levels earn less than men: TurkStat March 7, 2024

Despite opposition from the international community and women’s rights groups, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan issued the decree on March 20, 2021 that pulled the country out of the international treaty, which requires governments to adopt legislation prosecuting perpetrators of domestic violence and similar abuse as well as marital rape and female genital mutilation.

Erdoğan claimed the treaty had been “hijacked by a group of people attempting to normalize homosexuality,” which he said was “incompatible” with Turkey’s “social and family values.”

Turkey officially withdrew from the convention on July 1, 2021.

SCF releases report on human rights violations in Turkey in 2023 March 5, 2024

Femicides and violence against women are serious problems in Turkey, where women are killed, raped or beaten every day. Critics say the main reason behind the situation is the policies of the Justice and Development Party (AKP) government, which protects violent and abusive men by affording them impunity.