07 September 2024

Artist detained in annexed Crimea for single picket criticizing authorities

(Photo: Crimean Wind)

The artist Viktor Chyzhov held a one-man picket because he disagreed with the actions of the occupation authorities in the center of the Russian-annexed Ukrainian city of Sevastopol. Russian police arrived at the scene and detained the artist.

This was reported by Krym.Realii.

Viktor Chyzhov went on a picket to the city honor board in the center of Sevastopol on Nakhimov Square. He was holding a homemade poster with a skeleton and the inscription "Hand-to-mouth power slide". The picket was timed to coincide with the election campaign and the Russian elections to the local parliament on September 7-8.

After some time, the newspaper writes, the police arrived at the picket site, and the artist was detained in the presence of eyewitnesses. According to law enforcement officers, detention documents were drawn up against Viktor Chizhov. The police did not comment on the artist's stay in the temporary detention center.

Viktor Chyzhov is the author of monumental battle scenes from the Crimean War of 1854-1856. The artist takes an active part in the courts in the lawsuits filed by the local "Immortal Regiment" against illegal actions against the organization.

Earlier , the occupation authorities fined the Crimean edition ofKirim for 790 thousand rubles for publishing a report by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres, which referred to unjustified detentions and beatings of people. In this article, the operative saw"the dissemination of false information under the guise of reliable information, which created a threat of harm to the life and health of citizens, property, and the threat of massive violations of public order and public safety."

Before that, the occupation court of Crimea fined lawyer Emil Kurbedinov for publishing in a telegram. And before that, the occupiers on the peninsula illegally tried a resident of Nova Kakhovka, Victoria Bakalets, who called on locals not to go to the illegal Russian referendum in September 2022 and accused Russians of numerous war crimes committed in Ukraine.

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