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Family of Transnistrian man jailed for protesting Russia’s war speak out

Human rights conditions in the Russian-backed separatist enclave have been deteriorating since the invasion of Ukraine

By Matei Rosca and Irina Tabaranu
Family of Transnistrian man jailed for protesting Russia’s war speak out
Main street in the city of Tiraspol in Transnistria | Posnov / Getty Images
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Victor Pleșcanov has been in prison since June 2022, after displaying a Ukrainian flag on the balcony of his apartment.

Pleșcanov lives in Transnistria, the unrecognised Russian-backed breakaway state in Moldova that borders Ukraine, where any public condemnation of the war Russia is waging in Ukraine is met with harsh punishment.

Neither his wife Oxana Lopusneak, who is based in the Transnistrian capital of Tiraspol, nor his lawyers, based in the Moldovan capital of Chișinău, have been able to obtain a written copy of the charges against him.

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