Yet another Ukrainian has been ‘sentenced’ in the self-proclaimed ‘Donetsk people’s republic’ [DPR] to 14 years’ harsh regime imprisonment for communicating on Twitter. Virtually all that is known about 31-year-old Pavlo Podvezko comes from a videoed ‘confession’ which he has almost certainly been tortured into reading aloud. Although the so-called ‘DPR ministry of state security’ use the standard claims about working for Ukraine’s Security Service [SBU], it is interesting that the ‘charges’ against Podvezko involve his alleged communications with a Twitter user whom both Russia and its proxy ‘republics’ do have cause to hate.
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An armed soldier guard stands during the campaign meeting of Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Russia-backed separatists in Donetsk on Nov. 9, 2018.
