The Russian city of Chelyabinsk's district court has sentenced anarchists Dmitry Tsibukovsky and Anastasia Safonova, his wife, to one year and nine months of penal colony each in regards to the case on displaying a banner stating “FSB is the biggest terrorist” on the territory of the Federal Security Service (FSB) building, reports head of the Agora human rights group Pavel Chikov.
The prosecutor previously asked for 5 years for each. The defendants were accused of hooliganism on the basis of political hatred.
According to the prosecution, on the night of 15 February 2018, the activists hang up the aforementioned banner stating “FSB is the biggest terrorist” on the fence of the territory locating the Chelyabinsk region FSB Directorate building. The prosecution claims that Tsibukovsky also lit up a flare and threw it across the fence.