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Russia acquits feminist artist on trial for pornography
MOSCOW — A court in Russia’s significantly east on Friday handed a unusual acquittal to a feminist artist who was billed with disseminating pornography after she shared artwork on the net depicting feminine bodies. The costs versus activist Yulia Tsvetkova, 29, in the considerably jap city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur had elicited intercontinental outrage, with human legal rights groups linking her prosecution to the Kremlin’s aggressive marketing of “traditional family members values.” Russia’s most prominent women’s rights groups have faced crackdown in the latest years. In a 15-thirty day period trial that went on guiding closed doorways, the prosecution had sought a jail sentence of 3 yrs and two months on the…