Arseny Turbin, who committed his alleged crimes when he was just 14, has been branded as Russia’s ‘youngest terrorist’ following his conviction...
Judge Oleg Shishov in Oryol found him guilty of ‘participation in the activities of an organisation that is recognised as terrorist’...
[His mother] said 'We will appeal the verdict….we did not expect this outcome at all.'
There was a trial -- "no scrap of evidence" is a bald-faced lie.
If your theory (which really would have no scrap of evidence behind it) is that this was a kangaroo court, why would his mom be talking about appeals, and why would there be an appeal available in the first place?
Real reporting would have been, at minimum, getting a trial transcript and evaluating the evidence yourself. Or finding a Russian lawyer who was familiar with the proceedings and interviewing them. But of course MSN didn't do any of this, because this isn't reporting, this is propaganda.
He will now be held in a grim adult detention centre [article later notes he was sentenced to a juvenile facility]
a top performing student at school
no scrap of evidence for this was produced
a hellhole adult detention centre [in the same sentence where the article notes he's going to juvee]
If this was a story about, say, a January 6 defendant, these types of editorial decisions would jump out at people as an obvious sign of significant bias. Pull the exact same rhetorical tricks against a Bad Country, though, and most simply accept it at face value.
There was a trial -- "no scrap of evidence" is a bald-faced lie.
If your theory (which really would have no scrap of evidence behind it) is that this was a kangaroo court, why would his mom be talking about appeals, and why would there be an appeal available in the first place?
Real reporting would have been, at minimum, getting a trial transcript and evaluating the evidence yourself. Or finding a Russian lawyer who was familiar with the proceedings and interviewing them. But of course MSN didn't do any of this, because this isn't reporting, this is propaganda.
it's quite literally made for people like OP who are willing to boost even the most dubious sources to score a point against evil Russia
If this was a story about, say, a January 6 defendant, these types of editorial decisions would jump out at people as an obvious sign of significant bias. Pull the exact same rhetorical tricks against a Bad Country, though, and most simply accept it at face value.