St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko, who replaced store price tags with antiwar messages, appeals seven-year prison sentence

Source: Meduza

St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko has filed an appeal against her seven-year prison sentence for spreading “fakes” about the Russian army, reports Interfax, referencing the joint press service of the St. Petersburg courts.

Skochilenko’s lawyers filed the appeal on November 30, according to St. Petersburg’s Vasileostrovsky district court, which is reviewing the case.

Skochilenko was arrested in April 2022 for placing anti-war messages in a grocery store on top of price tags. She was sentenced to seven years in prison on November 16, 2023, after spending more than a year and a half in a pre-trial detention center.

‘I’m behind bars, but I’m more free than you’ Chronicling antiwar activist Sasha Skochilenko’s 19-month trial, from her arrest to her seven-year prison sentence, in photos

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St. Petersburg artist Sasha Skochilenko, who replaced store price tags with antiwar messages, appeals seven-year prison sentence

‘I’m behind bars, but I’m more free than you’ Chronicling antiwar activist Sasha Skochilenko’s 19-month trial, from her arrest to her seven-year prison sentence, in photos

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