The band Naive postponed a concert without giving reasons, after the vocalist defended and wore a T-shirt with the name of the girl who drew an anti-war picture and the father was sentenced to prison.
the band of punk rock Naive has postponed the concert that was scheduled for this Wednesday to the spring of 2024. The news comes after the singer, Alexander Ivanov, wore a shirt stamped with the name of Maria Moskalyova —also known as Masha— last Saturday, the Russian girl who was taken away by the authorities after having made an anti-war drawing, which showed the Ukrainian flag next to the words “Glory to Ukraine” and for which her father was sentenced to two years in prison.
12-year-old boy sent to orphanage for drawing an anti-war poster given to his mother, Russia says
“The new concert date will be announced later. All tickets purchased are valid and will not be exchanged”, can be read on the band’s Instagram account, which did not provide any reason for this change and whose comments were disabled.
The Instagram post where the band announced the postponement of the concert
Alexander Ivanov, better known as “Chacha” wore the shirt with the name of the girl on the stage of a concert of the band punk rock last Saturday, during which he stated that he “could not let this story go.” “I want to ask you to investigate this issue, find out what happened, being horrified by what happened to Masha and her family because of the drawing she did in an art classhe said, as quoted by the independent news website Meduza. The moment was shared in a video on Media Zone Twitter account.
Солист группы «Наив» Александр «Чача» Иванов во время концерта в Москве вышел на сцену в футболке «Маша Москалева» и рассказал слушателям о преследовании семьи школьницы, сообщил «Медиазоне» читательhttps://t.co/nFl98mqogF
Video: “Media” pic.twitter.com/fdeXjflTTH
— Mediazona (@mediazona) April 15, 2023
Maria Moskalyova is 12 years old. She was forcibly separated from her father, with whom she lived, placed in an orphanage for weeks, and later handed over to her mother after designing the Ukraine anti-war poster at school. Both Masha holding the drawing of her and her father can be seen in the cheep shared by journalist Hanna Liubakova.
#Russia Maria Moskaleva, 12, was sent to an orphanage, writes @OvdInfo. Her father, Aleksei Moskalev, was arrested after she published an anti-war cartoon. She also spoke out against the war. Her savings were reportedly stolen from her apartment in the town of Efremov, near Tula. pic.twitter.com/joPzBsgpn4
— Hanna Liubakova (@HannaLiubakova) March 1, 2023
On March 1, Russian security forces raided the family’s home in the Russian town of Efremov, detained father, Alexei Moskalyov, on suspicion of “discrediting the army”. He was sentenced to two years in prison for “damaging” the image of the Russian army and for criticizing the Kremlin’s policies on social media. Under house arrest, he tried to escape and was caught by the Belarusian authorities at the border.
The father of a 12-year-old girl who drew an anti-war poster is extradited to Russia from Belarus
Source: Observadora
