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Opposing Putin by planning an attack. Sort of buried at the bottom of the article there.
Says msn.com, that highly reputable web tabloid.
Googling his name reveals a list of other highly reputable sources, such as Metro.co.uk, and instagram. Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if the kid simply doesn't exist.
You're right to be skeptical, the source is RFA/Radio Svoboda and their article also mentions that Memorial calls him a political prisoner, and it's an "international human rights society" (another NGO) where two of its founders wrote for RFA or were caught (and admitted to) receiving funding from foreign sources. There needs to be more information before baselessly parroting such propaganda.
By all means, reveal the evidence that was presented which you claim is being suppressed. I have no problems admitting I'm wrong in the face of substantiated evidence.
Well I mean, if msn.com know that no evidence was presented there has to be a source for that right? Like amnesty international or something. Anything other than these very trustworthy, word-for-word identical, self-referencing articles that have appeared in the last 5 days.
I could take it all at face value, but then I used to do that back when we were invading Iraq and Afghanistan, and it turned out that 99% of what I was reading was utter bullshit designed to manufacture my consent for illegal wars and western imperialism.
Best I could find, myself not being fluent in Russian, is this human rights/legal organization still operating in Russia proper which describes the conviction as a result of delivering homemade fliers saying 'do we really need this kind of President'.
Much better source.
Although it does also mention the case was also about him joining a terrorist organisation which was planning an attack on Russian rail infrastructure.
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.
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
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.
It's western hasbara. Nobody gonna remember this in 24 hours
No, we'll remember it and we'll recall this when there's an inevitable follow up in 5 months where the truth contradicts the shitlib propaganda
