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"It is a disturbing sign when authorities press baseless charges against children of people who served their country their whole life."

The baseless charges are disturbing but if they have done something wrong it's also disturbing to NOT press charges against children of people who served their country their whole life. Which happens quite a bit.

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I had followed this case closely. Initially they accused a boy with directing crowds during Moscow protests on July 27, there was a video evidence. He was arrested and put into jail. Meanwhile prosecutors admitted that the guy on the video is not him. They let him go, he spent over a month in jail for no reason. They dropped initial charges but instead of begging his pardon, they brought totally different, unrelated charges of his blog content being extremist. While I agree your statement in general, in this particular case it all looks very thin and biased.

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