“This is how power asserts itself: with murder, cruelty and revealing revenge,” writes the opponent sentenced on appeal in 2023 to eight and a half years in prison, for having denounced “the murder of civilians ” in the Ukrainian town of Bucha.
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Russian opponent Ilia Iachine, sentenced to eight and a half years in prison for denouncing the assault on Ukraine, vowed on Tuesday, December 20 to continue his fight against Vladimir Putin“convinced” that the Russian president has “ordered” to kill Alexei Navalny. “He didn’t just kill him, he killed him demonstratively. Especially before the election [présidentielle en Russie de mi-mars] so that no one doubts Putin’s involvement”he added.
“In Putin’s understanding, this is how power asserts itself: with murder, cruelty and revealing revenge. This thinking is not that of a statesman. It is that of ‘a gang leader’he continued in a letter posted on his social networks by those close to him.
“As long as my heart beats in my chest, I will fight against tyranny. As long as I live, I will not fear evil. And as long as I breathe, I will be with my people. I swear.”
Ilia Yashin, Russian opponentin a letter posted on social networks
In April 2023, Ilia Iachine, 40, was sentenced on appeal to eight and a half years in prison for denouncing “the killing of civilians” in the Ukrainian town of Boutcha, near kyiv, where the Russian army has been accused of abuses, which Moscow denies, as always when its forces are accused of war crimes. In November, he was transferred to a penal colony in Safonovo, near the western Russian city of Smolensk.
