German artist given jail by Russian court for display mocking Putin
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“Jacques Tilly has been designing and building floats for Düsseldorf’s Carnival parade, one of Germany’s best-known, since 1984.”
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“A German artist who created carnival displays mocking Russian President Vladimir Putin was sentenced in absentia to more than 8 years in prison by a Moscow court on Thursday.”
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“Jacques Tilly was convicted on charges of spreading false information about the Russian military and insulting religious feelings.”
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“Carnival parades in Germany are famed for their floats mocking a wide variety of domestic and global political figures and Putin has frequently been a target.”
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“Tilly, 62, has been designing and building floats for Düsseldorf’s Carnival parade, one of Germany’s best-known, since 1984.”
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“In recent years, his designs have depicted Putin scrubbing himself in a bathtub filled with blood and painted in the colours of the Ukraine flag, while another featured a red-faced Putin biting into Ukraine, which was decorated with the words 'Choke on it!'.”
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“Tilly had previously told the German dpa news agency that the Russian criminal proceedings against him were 'an authoritarian regime's propaganda trial.'”
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