German Man Sentenced To 3 Years In Prison For Pro-Russian Rhetoric, Symbols – ZeroHedge 5/26/23

Source: ZeroHedge.com

A man in Germany was sentenced to three years in prison for mere political speech related to the war in Ukraine. He reportedly called Ukraine a “terrorist state” and prominently displayed the Russian military symbol “Z” in online posts.

Ukrainian media has picked up on the story and promoted it, apparently in glowing approval. For example Ukrainska Pravda said he was arrested for supporting ‘Russian aggression’. The case was first reported in Germany’s Die Welt based on a Hamburg court ruling.

The indictment reads: “The defendant justified Russia’s aggressive war against Ukraine on social media and ran a Telegram channel whose name and logo were based on the ultranationalist Russian Drugaya Rossiya (Other Russia) party.”…

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