Politician Ilya Yashin, sentenced to 8.5 years in a penal colony, said that he was transferred to Udmurtia. He is in SIZO-1 in Izhevsk. Yashin emphasizes that political prisoners usually wait for an appeal in their cities. Before being transferred, the escort told him: “Get ready. The authorities said that you must suffer.”
“Well, Udmurtia is, of course, not Rio de Janeiro, and the local prison is the least like a sanatorium. But I'm not going to suffer anyway, citizen chief; you do not blame me. Shkonki in Izhevsk and Moscow are the same, I fall asleep on them without any problems. My stomach got used to the gruel for a long time. And finding a common language with prisoners in any region is not difficult: when people find out how many years they gave me and for what, I hear only words of respect and support.
By sending me a thousand kilometers from the capital, the citizen chief is obviously trying to scare me with the “real Russia” and the Russian people. But in this way the boss only betrays his deepest fears and complexes. And I have nothing to be afraid of: I don’t fence myself off from people with the armored glass of a car and a security cordon. I am part of my people with all its advantages and disadvantages.
In general, I'm all right, friends. And I want to remind you that the criminal war with Ukraine must be stopped, Putin must go, and Russia must be free and happy,” writes Yashin.
On December 9, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow sentenced Yashin to 8.5 years in a penal colony under the article on the dissemination of "fakes" about the Russian army (clause "d" part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This is the most severe sentence under this article. The case was initiated because of Yashin's stream about the crimes of the Russian military in Bucha.