Russian woman convicted of disseminating child porn released
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A provincial Russian court has overturned the verdict for a cleaning lady who was convicted of disseminating child pornography in a social media post decrying abuse.
Yevgenia Chudnovets, who worked in a kindergarten in the Urals city of Yekaterinburg, was sentenced to six months in prison last November for posting a three-second video of child abuse in a summer camp. She called for the perpetrators to be punished. Individuals captured in the footage were eventually convicted and sent to prison.
In a rare ruling, the district court in the Kurgan region early Monday overturned the November verdict and ruled to release the woman who has spent three months in prison.
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Chudnovets' conviction comes amid a wave of criminal cases against Russians for various social media posts that began last year.