Person of the Week: Artem Loskutov

posted 10 May 2015, 13:14 by Rights in Russia [ updated 10 May 2015, 13:15 ]

On 2 May 2015, Novosibirsk performance artist Artem Loskutov was sentenced to 10 days in prison, and on 3 May he was fined 5,000 roubles over two ‘unauthorized’ monstrations, or events with absurdist slogans. (Human Rights in Ukraine, 7 May 2015).

On 3 May 2015 Amnesty International declared Artem Loskutov a ‘prisoner of conscience’. (The Moscow Times, 4 May 2015)

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