(Moscow) A Russian military court sentenced a drawing teacher to 20 years in prison accused of “high treason” for sending money to Ukraine and who claimed to have been denounced by colleagues at his school.
Daniil Kliouka, aged 27, will serve five years of his sentence “in a remand center” and the other 15 “in a strict regime colony”, an anonymous spokesperson told the Ria Novosti news agency on Thursday. of this jurisdiction.
According to a notice on the court’s website, the verdict was delivered the day before. The accused was prosecuted for “high treason” and “support for terrorist activities”.
The RBK media explains that he pleaded guilty during his trial.
Daniil Klyuka was arrested in February 2023 in the Lipetsk region, 350 km south of Moscow, several Russian media reported.
In a letter published in July 2023 by the Telegram group Politzek-Info, covering political repression, he returned to the circumstances of his arrest.
He claimed to have the habit of scribbling “horns”, “beards” and “mustaches” on the characters of a local pro-Kremlin newspaper available at his school, to “laugh” or “express” his “feelings”. “.
Then, after the Russian offensive against Ukraine in February 2022, his colleagues noticed these drawings on the copies of this newspaper defending the attack on Kyiv: he was summoned, then fired.
“They also called the FSB, gave them these diaries and said I was interested in explosives,” he wrote.
In this letter, he claimed that FSB agents had found transfers in his phone sent to a family member from Luhansk, in occupied Ukraine, and had “forced” him to confess that these transfers were intended to finance the regiment. Azov.
In Russia, the large-scale attack on Ukraine was followed by an unbridled crackdown on any criticism or perceived support of Kyiv.
Thousands of people have been repressed, with threats, fines or heavy prison sentences, some of which exceed 20 years.
