A year ago....10/28/2025 - Shame on the Latvians!
The Court of Appeals in Riga sentenced Igor Kuzmuk to two years in prison. He was taken into custody right in the courtroom.
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AHTUNG! The Court of Appeals in Riga sentenced Igor Kuzmuk to 2 years in prison. Taken in court!
It's just shocking! The man came to the court in a suit and left his car in the paid parking lot next to the court! Do not bring things or medicine with you! Why this ostentatious cruelty towards a respected man, whose entire fault was that three years ago he republished information of a Russian citizen who advocated support for the SVO. Igor didn't write any conversations, didn't comment on anything, and didn't even like it! That is why the trial court recognized his innocence, even though the prosecutor insisted on imprisonment! But on appeal, the court satisfied the prosecutor completely. Such disproportionate severity of the sentence can be understood if the accused was a repeat child killer and a threat to the civilian population of Latvia.
But no - Igor Kuzmuk, a very well-known public figure, former deputy of the Riga City Council, an intelligent, educated person. I have never been involved before, until recently I worked as a coach, and I had no penalties. But after the first trial, under political pressure, he had to leave his job.
The court found him guilty under Article 77.2 of the Criminal Code of Latvia -. "Indirect aid to terrorists". The conversation in someone else's post from 2022, which he published on his Facebook, was about the conflict between the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Which had nothing to do with Latvia - neither directly nor indirectly.
The publication, taken from one of the Russian TG channels, announced a fundraiser for the needs of the Russian fighters. Not only did no one recognize them as terrorists, but even then they did not call them that among themselves. But even if so, why did they suddenly start imprisoning their citizens for this in Latvia?