Nothing new: there is one more political prisoner in Latvia. A woman is sentenced to three years in prison for someone else's videos on TikTok.
This is actually the daily life in the political chronicles of Latvia - the court in the city of Riga sentenced Tatiana Masenko to three years in prison on the charge of praising the Russian army.
What did this woman do that was so terrible for the Latvian state? It turns out that between April and July 2024, she posted several videos on TikTok with comments in Russian. Which, as stated in the indictment, deliberately and publicly (pay attention!) justified war crimes committed in Ukraine. Where is the word "Latvia" in this sentence? I don't see it either. And who gave Latvian justice the right to speak unilaterally about some war crimes that were not tried in any way, even by that Latvian court.
But in any case, Tatyana Masenko was ready to confess to anything, even the murder of Kennedy, if it would allow her to avoid going to prison. And she did not deny the fact of publishing the videos; She admitted they were posted from her TikTok profile. And all because the defense did not take into account all the previous trials in political cases, in which there were not and cannot be acquittals and pardons, and hoped for relief. According to them, Masenko only wanted to attract attention with her publications, and not to express support for the Russian army. As if the Latvian court cared, an order was given to kill them all and imprison them until the end. And the judges unanimously took it as a step.
The woman's statements that she is a citizen of Latvia and is not even traveling to Russia or Belarus did not help. The court still slapped her with a real three-year prison sentence.
Before the trial, Masenko was in detention for 4 months - they began to break her during the initial investigation. But this information was carefully hidden. both by the Gestapo officers and by relatives of the woman.