Russian doctor gets five years' jail for criticising war in Ukraine during private consultation with patient
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A Russian court on Tuesday (Nov. 12) sentenced an elderly pediatrician to five and a half years in prison for criticising the war in Ukraine during a patient visit.
This comes after the mother of one of her patients publicly denounced her for comments she allegedly made about Russian soldiers in Ukraine during a private consultation in January.
68-year-old Nadezhda Buyanova was accused by the ex-wife of a soldier killed in Ukraine of referring to her child's father as a "legitimate target of Ukraine" and saying Russia was "guilty" in the ongoing war.
Buyanova was jailed on charges of "disseminating false information” about Russia's military campaign in Ukraine.
Since the beginning of the Ukraine invasion in 2022, Russia has adopted a law against spreading "fake" information widely to silence differing opinions, reported the Guardian.
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Buyanova was born in Lviv, Ukraine, but has been a resident of Russia for a long time.
In her statement, she insisted on her innocence, saying that she had not discussed the war with the boy or his mother.
Her defence argued that she had been targeted because of her Ukrainian heritage, noting that prosecutors had no solid evidence to prove she had spoken against the war.
Moreover, there is no audio recording from the consultation room, and prosecutors relied only on the testimony of the seven-year-old boy and his mother, Anastasia Akinshina.
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Akinshina made a video that was quickly picked by pro-Kremlin media, in which she said, "I won’t let them sweep it up under the carpet!”
The case went viral after which Alexander Bastrykin, the hardline head of Russia’s Investigative Committee, vowed to take it under his personal control.
However, the case has attracted widespread condemnation from human rights groups, with Memorial, a prominent Russian human rights organisation, listing Buyanova as a political prisoner.
(With inputs from agencies)
