News Center- On Thursday, Russian artist Sasha Skochilenko was sentenced to seven years in prison by a court in St Petersburg for replacing supermarket pricing labels with anti-war messages.

Sasha Skochilenko, an artist opposing the Russian military attacks on Ukraine, was arrested in April 2022 in her hometown, St Petersburg, on charges of “spreading false information”.

In 2022, she replaced supermarket pricing labels with anti-war messages. The replacement labels read, “The Russian army bombed an art school in Mariupol. Around 400 people were hiding inside. My great grandfather did not fight in WWII for four years so that Russia could become a fascist state and attack Ukraine.”

After the court verdict, Sasha Skochilenko emphasized that she is not a political activist and that her protest was peaceful.