Who is Darya Kozyreva- 19 year old Russian jailed for criticising Ukraine war

Darya Kozyreva, a 19-year-old from St Petersburg, has been sentenced to two years and eight months in a penal colony for allegedly discrediting the Russian military. Her act of pasting a verse from a Ukrainian poem onto a statue led to the charges. Rights groups have declared her a political prisoner, criticising the sentence as suppression of anti-war sentiment.

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