TikTok calls for overthrowing the government: court sentences the author of the video.

In Ivano-Frankivsk region, a man, using the popular social network TikTok, called for the overthrow of the Ukrainian government, which led to a court trial and his conviction.

The court found the defendant guilty and sentenced him to two years in prison without confiscation of property for attempting to violently change or overthrow the constitutional order or to seize state power.

According to the court's sentence, the man created his account on TikTok, where he spread materials calling for the overthrow of the Ukrainian government, which occurred in June last year. During the trial, he admitted his guilt, despite the fact that his actions were illegal, and he did not understand criminal liability. In addition, events were taken into account during the court hearing when two men in Transcarpathia attempted to smuggle draft evaders across the border, who had already been subjected to preventive measures, as well as the case of a man from Kyiv who set fire to a post office and a military vehicle.

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Thus, the court decided to impose a penalty of two years in prison without confiscation of property for attempting to violently change or overthrow the constitutional order of Ukraine or for seizing state power.