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Diana Loginova has been repeatedly jailed for performing banned anti-war songs, with Amnesty International calling her arrests a tactic to suppress dissent amid Russia's ongoing censorship.
- A Russian court has extended the jailing of 18-year-old singer Diana Loginova for performing anti-war songs in public, ordering her to be held for another 13 days.
- Loginova's performances of songs critical of the Kremlin and the war in Ukraine, with crowds joining in, have been widely viewed online and triggered calls for police action from pro-Kremlin activists.
- Russian authorities have ramped up their crackdown on dissent and free speech since the invasion of Ukraine, targeting various groups, and hundreds have been jailed and thousands have fled the country.
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Russia Is Keeping a Teen Street Musician Locked Up
A teenage street musician in Russia walked out of prison Monday after serving nearly a month behind bars for the crime of singing banned songs, only to be detained yet again. Diana Loginova, 18, who performs in St. Petersburg with the band Stoptime, has now been sentenced to another 13...
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Russian court extends jailing of teenage singer over street performance of anti-war songs
A Russian court has extended the jailing of an 18-year-old street singer on charges seen as punishment for performing anti-war songs.
Russian teenager who sang anti-Kremlin songs in street gets more jail time
A teenage Russian street musician who has spent nearly a month in jail after singing anti-Kremlin songs was handed more jail time on Tuesday in a case rights activists say shows how stifling wartime censorship has become.
A Russian court on Tuesday sentenced an 18-year-old street musician who performed anti-war songs to a third term in prison, as the Kremlin takes a sweeping crackdown on any signs of dissent or opposition. Any public criticism of Moscow's military operations in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin or the military is banned under sweeping censorship laws that human rights groups have likened to...
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