On Wednesday, the Golovin District Court of Moscow sentenced Oleg Orlov, co-chairman of the human rights defenders organization “Memorials”, to a fine of 150,000 rubles (approximately 1,400 euros) for repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, independent web publication Mediazona reports.
On Wednesday, the Golovin District Court of Moscow sentenced Oleg Orlov, co-chairman of the human rights defenders organization “Memorials”, to a fine of 150,000 rubles (approximately 1,400 euros) for repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army, independent web publication Mediazona reports.
The prosecutor’s office requested to impose a fine of 250,000 rubles on Orlov.
The reason for the criminal prosecution of the human rights defender was the article “They wanted fascism. They got it” published on the social communication website Facebook, which condemned Russia’s war against Ukraine. In his last words, Orlov stated that he did not regret publishing the article.
Before the start of the court debate, the prosecutor’s representative Svetlana Kildysheva demanded that Orlov be sent for a psychiatric examination, because he has mental health problems, which is evidenced by “a heightened sense of justice and a complete lack of the instinct of self-preservation”.
