{"id":119612,"date":"2019-04-27T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T09:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/butinas-sentence-criminalizes-what-thousands-of-international-students-abroad-do\/"},"modified":"2019-04-27T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T09:02:36","slug":"butinas-sentence-criminalizes-what-thousands-of-international-students-abroad-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bnreport.com\/en\/butinas-sentence-criminalizes-what-thousands-of-international-students-abroad-do\/","title":{"rendered":"Butina\u2019s sentence \u2018criminalizes what thousands of international students abroad do\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
      The politically motivated sentence of Russian gun activist Maria Butina makes anyone going to study abroad \u2013 including Americans \u2013 look like a criminal, analysts have told RT.      \n<\/code><\/pre>\n
The 18-month prison sentence for Butina "is a horrific miscarriage of justice,"<\/em> said Daniel McAdams, executive director of the Ron Paul Institute. "The only thing she's guilty of is being a Russian in America at a time that America is under a spell of some kind of anti-Russian hysteria.<\/em><\/p>\n
                           Also on rt.com             US court sentences Russian gun activist Maria Butina to 18 months in jail                            <\/a><\/p>\n
"This woman was held in maximum security solitary confinement for 10 months for a crime for which an average person would get a small fine and be sent off,"<\/em> McAdams added.<\/p>\n
Butina, who arrived in the US on a student visa in 2016 before becoming active in pro-gun circles, was sentenced on Friday for acting as a foreign agent on behalf of the Kremlin without proper registration.<\/p>\n
"What she did is what thousands and thousands of other foreign international students do in the US. They come to the US to get to know the country; to get to know how the political system works; to make friends\u2026 The idea that she is some sort of Russian spy is absolutely absurd,"<\/em> McAdams told RT.<\/p>\n
Thousands of American students abroad do the same as well, and the ruling against Butina has "criminalized"<\/em> them all, he added.<\/p>\n
"There's danger that there could be a tit-for-tat response from Russia,"<\/em> said independent political commentator Anthony Webber.<\/p>\n
                           Also on rt.com             Accused spy Maria Butina wouldnt be in jail if she wasnt Russian \u2013 attorney                            <\/a><\/p>\n
"I don't think it helps relationships on the world stage. What's needed is for Russia is to be calm and not overreact,"<\/em> he told RT, adding that the history of Russian-American relations shows that Moscow is actually "good at not overreacting to over-the-top provocations."<\/em><\/p>\n
After being held in solitary confinement for months, Butina pleaded guilty to being a de facto lobbyist, saying that she was unaware that registration was needed.<\/p>\n
"Going to jail for that seems really over the top,"<\/em> Webber said. "I don't think it makes the democratic process or the judicial process look very good either."<\/em><\/p>\n
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Her whole case "has been blown out of proportion to fit the anti-Russian agenda, which has been going on in the US since the 2016 presidential election\u2026 She's just being made use of as a pawn,"<\/em> the analyst said.<\/p>\n
The entire affair has been \u201cpolitical from the beginning,"<\/em> said Patrick Henningsen, editor aRead More \u2013 Source<\/strong><\/a>
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