r/worldnews • u/DownWithAssad • 5d ago

Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine Russia/Ukraine

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u/eaturfeelins 5d ago

Man it was the same in Cuba, still is. I remember we’d huddle over in the kitchen and close the windows and shutters and whisper whenever we wanted to discuss the regime or discuss buying beef (people were being jailed for selling and buying beef since the government owned it all), and one of us would stand by the back door keeping watch. Our next door neighbor was a snitch for the government police.

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u/maditqo 5d ago

the difference is, however, in Russia, you can be jailed for a failure to report someone the government will later convict

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u/Falcon_4L 5d ago edited 5d ago

Same applies in Australia, specifically New South Wales. It's a crime to not report a serious offence without reasonable excuse.

*Edit - for the down voters, google section 316 of the New South Wales Crimes Act.

For the lazy

CRIMES ACT 1900 - SECT 316 Concealing serious indictable offence 316 Concealing serious indictable offence (1) An adult-- (a) who knows or believes that a serious indictable offence has been committed by another person, and (b) who knows or believes that he or she has information that might be of material assistance in securing the apprehension of the offender or the prosecution or conviction of the offender for that offence, and (c) who fails without reasonable excuse to bring that information to the attention of a member of the NSW Police Force or other appropriate authority, is guilty of an offence. : Maximum penalty--Imprisonment for-- (a) 2 years--if the maximum penalty for the serious indictable offence is not more than 10 years imprisonment, or (b) 3 years--if the maximum penalty for the serious indictable offence is more than 10 years imprisonment but not more than 20 years imprisonment, or (c) 5 years--if the maximum penalty for the serious indictable offence is more than 20 years imprisonment.

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u/yoingydoingy 4d ago

That's completely irrelevant, the issue is that discussing the regime is considered a "serious offence" in these places...

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u/youdoaline_idoaline 4d ago

We are so oppressed down here, might as well just become an authoritarian oligarchy, seeing as there's no difference between Australia and Putins Russia/S

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u/sailirish7 5d ago

Our next door neighbor was a snitch for the government police.

If this was known, how did these people never "disappear"? I don't mean this as an accusation, I'm just legitimately curious.