Activists Across Eastern Europe Receive Harsh Prison Sentences.

Crimean performance artist Bohdan Ziza has been sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony by a Russian military court in Rostov-on-Don for splashing paint in the colors of the Ukrainian flag on a government building in Russian-annexed Crimea and attempting to set it on fire with a Molotov cocktail. Ziza recorded a video of the stunt along with an anti-war speech calling on people to protest against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Russian authorities accused Ziza of committing an act of terrorism and said they found threats and calls for committing other attacks in the video he posted on social media.