A Russian girl sent to an orphanage after drawing an anti-war sketch at school was taken out of the institution by her mother, the Kremlin’s Children’s Rights Commissioner said Wednesday.
in the case I drew international outragethe father of 13-year-old Maria Moskaryova was found guilty of discrediting the Russian military and sentenced to two years in prison while her daughter was sent to an orphanage.
The Kremlin’s Children’s Rights Ombudsperson, Maria Livova Belova, said she met the mother of a girl who had been separated from her husband and children for a long time. Her girl had refused to live with her mother, but she changed her mind, so her mother took her back to her home, Lvova-Belova said.
His father, Alexei Moskaryov, escaped house arrest last week just before a sentencing hearing in the town of Efremov, south of Moscow.he was detained in Belarus 2 days later.
His current whereabouts are unknown, but Efremov’s court is scheduled Thursday to consider a prosecutor’s request to strip him of his parental rights.
Moskalyov, 54, was indicted for social media posts criticizing the war in Ukraine under a law adopted days after Russian forces invaded in February 2022. he denied the charges.
According to Moskaryov’s lawyers and supporters, Moskaryov’s troubles began after his daughter drew a picture at the Efremov 9th School towards women and children depicting missiles flying over the Russian flag. The painting also included the words “against war” and “glory to Ukraine.”
The school called the police, the girl was questioned and Moskaryov was fined, eventually indicted and convicted for his social media posts.
The incident underscored the extent of the Kremlin’s crackdown on dissent, which has relentlessly targeted those who dared criticize the war. One of Russia’s oldest and most prominent rights groups, the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Memorial, declared Moskaryov a political prisoner.
The International Criminal Court is about to arrest Lviva Belova, along with Russian President Vladimir Putin, for alleged war crimes of deporting children from Ukraine.she spoke at a United Nations conference On Wednesday, the children claimed they had been moved for their safety, and Moscow said it was working with international organizations to return them to their families.
