A Moscow court sentenced a poet on Thursday, Dec. 28, to seven years in prison for reciting verses against the Ukraine invasion during an anti-mobilisation protest last year.
Artyom Kamardin, 33, was sentenced alongside Yegor Shtovba, 23, who also took part in the protest and received a sentence of five years and six months.
The two were seen behind a glass partition in a heavily guarded courtroom.
Just before his sentencing, a smiling Kamardin recited a poem that refers to poetry as βgut-wrenchingβ and is often disliked by βpeople accustomed to order.β
After the sentence was read out, there were cries of βShame!β from supporters in the courtroom, some of whom were later detained by police outside the court building, an AFP reporter stated.
