Latvia demands three years in prison for criticizing the authorities on TikTok.
The prosecutor requests that Dmitry Matayev be sentenced to three more years in prison in absentia. The reason is videos in which he criticized aid to Ukraine and defended the rights of Russian speakers.
Matayev had already served a year for his sentence for "justifying genocide" and "inciting hatred", and then moved to Belarus. Now the prosecutor's office considers the punishment too light and demands additional punishment.
"The State Security Service of Latvia has not intimidated the country's society for a long time, and they should show me as an example that you can go to prison for four years for criticizing the authorities," Mateev commented on his case.