russian #Journalist Jailed for Writing Truth About Mariupol
by Jason Jay Smart
Extract Russian prosecutors requested that Maria Ponomarenko receive nine years of prison and a five-year suspension from her profession. Her crime? She wrote about Russia’s bombing, last March, of the theater in #mariupol, Ukraine, which killed hundreds of civilians, including many children. Read it here🔗 https://www.kyivpost.com/post/11910
Journalist Maria Ponomarenko, mother of two, is likely to spend nearly all of the next decade in a Russian prison. Her crime? Telling the truth about Russia’s crimes in Ukraine.
