Jailed for a Like - Coda Story https://www.codastory.com/series/jailed-for-a-like/ stay on the story Wed, 01 May 2019 19:20:45 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.3 https://www.codastory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/cropped-LogoWeb2021Transparent-1-32x32.png Jailed for a Like - Coda Story https://www.codastory.com/series/jailed-for-a-like/ 32 32 239620515 Jailed for a Like | Episode Six: The Lucky One Percent https://www.codastory.com/episodes/jailed-for-a-like-episode-six-the-lucky-one-percent/ Wed, 01 May 2019 19:20:45 +0000 https://www.codastory.com/?post_type=episodes&p=7489 This is the story of Natalia Vahonina, a journalist from the city of Nizhny Tagil who says that Russia’s laws on extremism on social media were used to try and silence her investigation into local corruption.

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]]> 7489 Jailed for a Like | Episode Five: Criticism or Terrorism? https://www.codastory.com/episodes/jailed-for-a-like-episode-five-criticism-or-terrorism/ Wed, 01 May 2019 19:20:16 +0000 https://www.codastory.com/?post_type=episodes&p=7488 This is the story of Aleksey Kungurov, a blogger from the city of Tyumen sentenced to two years in prison for his post which criticized Russia’s bombing campaign in Syria.

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]]> 7488 Jailed for a Like | Episode Four: A Family Accused of Extremism https://www.codastory.com/episodes/jailed-for-a-like-episode-four-a-family-accused-of-extremism/ Wed, 01 May 2019 19:19:47 +0000 https://www.codastory.com/?post_type=episodes&p=7487 This is the story of an electrical engineer from the city of Tver who has been in jail for two years for his social media posts and of his family ruined by the Kremlin’s clampdown on dissent.

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]]> 7487 Jailed for a Like | Episode Three: Silencing the Poet https://www.codastory.com/episodes/jailed-for-a-like-episode-three-silencing-the-poet/ Wed, 01 May 2019 19:19:13 +0000 https://www.codastory.com/?post_type=episodes&p=7486 This is a story of Alexandr Byvshev, a poet and a schoolteacher from Russia’s Oryol region who was sentenced to 300 hours of labor for posting a poem about Ukraine that criticized Russia’s annexation of Crimea.

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]]> 7486 Jailed for a Like | Episode Two: When Caring Becomes a Crime https://www.codastory.com/episodes/jailed-for-a-like-episode-two-when-caring-becomes-a-crime/ Wed, 01 May 2019 19:18:44 +0000 https://www.codastory.com/?post_type=episodes&p=7485 This is a story of young mother from Russia’s Kurgan region who was sentenced to six months in prison for sharing a video on the Russian social media platform Vkontake. The case of Evgeniya Chudnovets has sparked debate across Russia about how Russians should behave on social media.

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]]> 7485 Jailed for a Like | Episode One: Pokemon Games https://www.codastory.com/episodes/jailed-for-a-like-episode-one-pokemon-games/ Wed, 01 May 2019 19:18:01 +0000 https://www.codastory.com/?post_type=episodes&p=7484 In Episode One Coda speaks with Elena Chingina, the mother of 22-year-old Ruslan Sokolovsky who is currently waiting for his trail date in pre-trial detention in a Yekaterinburg prison.

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