Court in occupied Donetsk jails Z-blogger Tetiana Montian for 1.5 years
A court installed by Russian occupiers in occupied Donetsk sentenced Tetiana Montian, a 54-year-old Z-blogger and lawyer, to one and a half years in a penal colony for calls to extremism. Ukrainian outlet Pravda frames the ruling as pro-war propagandists being jailed by their own side.
The Voroshilovskyi inter-district court in Donetsk, a court appointed by Russian occupation authorities in eastern Ukraine, has convicted 54-year-old Z-blogger and lawyer Tetiana Montian. She was sentenced to one year and six months in a general-regime penal colony. The charge concerned calls to "extremism".
Z-bloggers are people who back Russia's invasion of Ukraine on social media. The Ukrainian outlet Ukrainska Pravda presents the case as one in which a propagandist has been punished within the very system she supported, since the court that convicted Montian operates under Russian occupation authority.
The source gives no further details about which statements were deemed to be calls to extremism, whether the verdict can be appealed, or when it takes effect.
