Three Russian pro-EU protesters in Tbilisi sentenced to 8.5 years for “possession of large amount of drugs” – all claim that police planted the evidence
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Three Russian pro-EU protesters in Tbilisi sentenced to 8.5 years for “possession of large amount of drugs” – all claim that police planted the evidence
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**Anastasia Zinovkina**
Russian civic activist. She was active in anti-Putin protests in Russia (including in support of Alexei Navalny).
She moved to Georgia in December 2022.
**Artem Gribul**
Also Russian. He left Russia, reportedly to avoid mobilization for the war in Ukraine, and initially went to Armenia, where he worked remotely in IT. He met Anastasia there, and they later traveled to Georgia toward the end of 2024.
**Anton Chechin**
A Russian activist from Barnaul (Siberia). Before arriving in Georgia, he was involved in opposition protest activity in Russia, including supporting Navalny. He moved to Georgia in 2022 and continued activism, including with protesters in Tbilisi.
Three Georgian citizens facing nearly identical charges were released due to “lack of evidence,” yet Russians who had protested against Putin were found guilty. Quite the coincidence, I must say.
That’s a shame… Kremlin shade on beautiful Georgia
What is a “large amount of drugs” exactly?
I doubt that political activists would deal drugs so it’s either planted or they found like 10g of weed and someone classified it as a “large amount”.
Sorry if I’m asking stupid questions, I am not Georgian.
A tragic miscarriage of justice, but if the bottom right actually had large quantities of drugs I would not be surprised
I feel sorry for the guys. It is neither the Russian state nor the Georgian state that will stand up for them. But you have to be smarter. If you come to a foreign country, there’s nothing to stir up trouble.
All i can say is if I’m ever arrested by the police here I’d want ask them to take multiple photos so i don’t end up looking like these guys.
Top looks like she should be running Bates Motel. Bottom-left looks like he is on drugs. Bottom-right looks like a pimp!
This is an exemplary punishment specifically for foreigners to discourage them from participating in Georgian protest movement.
This would not be the case if their home country was not ruSSia, but in this case both sides GD and Kremlin are happy to inflict maximum pain and nobody can say anything or care…
Not going to lie, it’s hard not to believe any of these people shown wouldn’t be carrying drugs. Perhaps they planted it, but it’s a plausible story too.
Hope everyone is watching Nepal and taking notes.