Russian blogger faces jail time for posting feminist memes
The same laws used to imprison the activist musicians of Pussy Riot in Russia are being used to pursue charges regarding posts made by a female blogger, who could face jail time as a consequence. Lyobov Kalugina, a 31-year-old who resides in the Siberian city Omsk, said she’s facing charges regarding posts that she made on Russian social media site VKontakte, as far back as 2013.
Kaligina informed the SOVA center, a respected extremism watchdog in Moscow, that she could face hate speech charges and up to five years in jail for posting about what she described as “some jokes about asses, pussies, and intra-feminist debates.” The charges she faces are under Article 282, which bans the “incitement of national, racial or religious enmity.” The SOVA center said that though some of Kaligina’s...