A RUSSIAN dad has gone on the run after his daughter’s drawing landed him a jail sentence for slamming Vladimir Putin’s brutal invasion of Ukraine.
Masha Moskalyova, 13, penned an image in school exhibiting Russian missiles hurtling in the direction of a Ukrainian lady and little one.
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The drawing additionally featured a Ukrainian flag with the phrases “Glory to Ukraine” and a Russian tricolour with the slogan “No to war“.
Her single dad Alexei Moskalyov, 54, was positioned below home arrest earlier this month whereas Masha was taken to a grim rehabilitation centre which is a part of the state orphanage system.
He was sentenced to 2 years in a harsh penal colony on Tuesday for “discrediting the armed forces” – however has not been seen since Monday.
Moskalyov was not in court docket and court docket officers stated he had fled fearing a jail sentence.
He’s additionally more likely to be disadvantaged of his parental rights – which might imply he by no means sees Masha once more as she could possibly be despatched completely to an orphanage or given to a foster household.
The repressive motion towards the schoolgirl started when she drew an anti-war image in school final April.
Pupils had been instructed by a instructor to do art work in assist of Russia’s troops.
She was reported to police by a instructor, and quizzed by the FSB, Putin’s feared counterintelligence service.
Her father was quizzed and located to have posted his assist for Ukraine and caricatures of Vladimir Putin on social media for which he was fined £350.
Authorized motion towards him continued culminating in Tuesday’s sentence.
It’s the first time for the reason that Soviet period {that a} little one has been separated from a mum or dad based mostly on political opinions.
Moskalyov’s lawyer Vladimir Biliyenko added that the defence would attraction towards the decision and Masha would stay within the youngsters’s house in the meanwhile.
The sentencing has provoked an outcry amongst Russian human rights activists and sparked a web-based marketing campaign to reunite father and daughter.
Even Yevgeny Prigozhin, the founding father of Wagner Group, Russia’s strongest mercenary group concerned in a few of the fiercest preventing in Ukraine, referred to as the decision “unfair” and requested that it’s reviewed.
In a letter to the prosecutor, Prigozhin wrote: “Particularly in view of the truth that his daughter Masha will probably be compelled to develop up in an orphanage.”
Police started inspecting Moskalyov’s social media exercise and he was initially fined 35,000 roubles (£370) for feedback vital of the Russian military.
In December, investigators opened one other case towards him on suspicion of discrediting the armed forces, this time based mostly on a social media submit in June.
The banned Russian human rights group Memorial stated it thought of Moskalyov to be a political prisoner.
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