Military Court Jails Soviet Dissident Skobov 16 Years for ‘Justifying Terrorism’

I want the young people who took the hit to know: the last Soviet dissidents stood alongside them,

he wrote in the letter, which was published by the Novaya Gazeta outlet

Tanya Lokshinahuman rights activist from Russia

The draconian sentence handed down to Alexander Skobov today is emblematic of the war against dissent wielded by Russian authorities insure the country, in parallel to their abuse war in Ukraine,

said Tanya Lokshina, an associate director for Human Rights Watch’s Europe and Central Asia division

I ask the regime’s henchmen present here: do you admit your guilt in being complicit in Putin’s crimes?”

Skobov added

It is particularly poignant that Skobov had spent years in a Soviet prison for having exercised his freedom of opinion all those years back – and over four decades later the history is repeating itself,

she added

I’m the one blaming you here. I accuse Putin’s ruling clique, which stinks of corpses, of preparing, unleashing and waging an aggressive war,

Skobov added

Death to the Russian fascist invaders! Death to Putin, the new Hitler, the murderer and scoundrel! Glory to Ukraine!”

Mediazona quoted Skobov as saying