http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/18/russian-livejournal-blogger-could-face-three-year-sentence/ Defending Free Speech Online Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:38:32 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/18/russian-livejournal-blogger-could-face-three-year-sentence/#comment-2757 Global Voices Online » Russian LiveJournal blogger could face three-year sentence Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:31:30 +0000 http://advocacy.globalvoicesonline.org/2007/09/18/russian-livejournal-blogger-could-face-three-year-sentence/#comment-2757 [...] The 23-year old Russian blogger, Dmitry Shirinkin, who wrote a fiction story on his blog inspired by the Virginia Tech shooting, could face up to three years in prison. In an interview with Russia Today (watch the video on GV Advocacy), Shirinkin said “I didn’t expect that a short writing piece could provoke such reaction from the security services. They interrogated me asking where my gun was, but I’d never had one.” Share This [...] [...] The 23-year old Russian blogger, Dmitry Shirinkin, who wrote a fiction story on his blog inspired by the Virginia Tech shooting, could face up to three years in prison. In an interview with Russia Today (watch the video on GV Advocacy), Shirinkin said “I didn’t expect that a short writing piece could provoke such reaction from the security services. They interrogated me asking where my gun was, but I’d never had one.” Share This [...]

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