Alexei was an elected member of a Moscow district council. In March 2022, at a council meeting, he objected to holding a children's drawing contest while children were dying in Ukraine. He was the first person jailed under the new wartime censorship law, given seven years, and three more were later added over a conversation with cellmates. Part of one lung was removed years ago, and he has spent much of his sentence in punishment cells.
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Alexei was an elected member of a Moscow district council. In March 2022, at a council meeting, he objected to holding a children's drawing contest while children were dying in Ukraine. He was the first person jailed under the new wartime censorship law, given seven years, and three more were later added over a conversation with cellmates. Part of one lung was removed years ago, and he has spent much of his sentence in punishment cells.
