A man who was detained in Russia after his daughter drew an anti-war picture – in a case that generated global headlines – has been released from a penal colony.
The drawing – featuring the phrases “No to war” and “Glory to Ukraine”, by Alexei Moskalev’s daughter Masha – was reported to the police in 2022.
He was later accused of repeatedly criticising the Russian army on social media and, in March 2023, sentenced to two years in jail for discrediting the army.
Footage shared online on Tuesday shows him after leaving the penal colony in the Tula region, and embracing his daughter, while still wearing his prison uniform.
His release was reported by his lawyer from OVD-Info, Vladimir Biliyenko, the Russian human rights group said.
Moskalev described spending two months in a punishment cell while he was detained.
He said: “It was just a torture chamber. Just a torture chamber. First of all, the cell was two metres by one metre, do you understand what that is?
“At first, I was sitting alone, then they put a second person in. And the two of us were sitting in a cell measuring two by one meter.
“The floors were rotten, rats were everywhere, coming from the sewers and everywhere, huge rats.”
Russia’s federal prison service has not immediately commented, and has not replied to a request for comment from the Reuters news agency.
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