Russian woman faces prosecution after sewing her mouth shut in protest about censorship of protests against the war in Ukraine.
Police snatched protestor Nadezhda Sayfutdinova in the eastern city of Yekaterinburg, using "brute force" to try to get her locked in a psychiatric facility.Ms Sayfutdinova has managed to avoid being sectioned but she is still expected to face prosecution for discrediting the Russian armed forces.The activist, in her 30s, had sewn her own mouth shut, before taking to the streets of the city in a one-woman protest.She held up a sign which read: “You cannot keep silent!!!
You cannot keep silent!!! The price is our consciousness. War is not peace!!! Freedom is not slavery!!! Ignorance is not power!!!” Ms Sayfutdinova hit out at the “moral code” in Putin’s Russia which gagged people over the war.
She told representatives of the OVD-Info human rights group: “My mouth was really sewn with a needle and thread.“An ambulance was called to the [police] station to inspect the damage and remove the threads.“I sewed it myself.”She was taken first to a trauma clinic, and then to the city’s psychiatric clinic No.3.
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