{"id":413882,"date":"2015-03-03T15:51:19","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T13:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moldova.org\/?p=413882"},"modified":"2015-03-03T15:51:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T13:51:19","slug":"protester-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-for-sticking-politicians-photo-on-giant-penis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moldova.org\/en\/protester-sentenced-to-2-years-in-prison-for-sticking-politicians-photo-on-giant-penis\/","title":{"rendered":"Protester sentenced to 2 years in prison for sticking politician’s photo on giant penis"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Moldovan renowned protester and civic activist Anatol Matasaru has been sentenced to 2 years’ time in jail with 3 years probation. Matasaru first became known to the public after the anti-Communist protests in 2009, when he was beaten by the police. Since then, he has been a constant protester against police abuse and corruption, while also blasting politicians for their involvement with oligarchs. Thus, in January 2013, Matasaru brought a 2-meter penis-like composition outside the Prosecutor General’s Office. The eccentric protester even stuck a photo of Marian Lupu, then Speaker of Parliament, on the giant phallus.<\/p>\n

The police came, seized the “object” and Matasaru was charged with hooliganism. However, the trial was protracted until yesterday, when he received the 2-year sentence with 3 years on probation. While he hasn’t been actually jailed, Matasaru says that probation means he won’t be able to protest anymore: a wrong chant or poster will get him in jail.<\/p>\n

Matasaru has made it a tradition to celebrate the Prosecutor’s professional holiday in an “inventive” manner. In recent years, besides the dick statue, he has protested wearing a pig mask “symbolizing the corrupt prosecutors”, brought a faeces-like cake for them, little faeces-like statues representing various judges, prosecutors and police officers, a coffin, a blow-up doll, a donkey in a police uniform and a pig in a prosecutor’s uniform, as well as pig-human hybrid composition with a poster reading “I am a corrupt prosecutor. Spit on me”.<\/p>\n

The sentence pronounced against him has generated a wave of support for Matasaru, at least on the internet. Many consider him to be of the few people in Moldova who use humour and art to protest against the corrupt system. They say that while his exhibitions may seem exaggerated, so is the level of corruption among politicians and the law-enforcing bodies. Some even went on to compare him with the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>Moldovan renowned protester and civic activist Anatol Matasaru has been sentenced to 2 years’ time in jail with 3 years probation. Matasaru first became known to the public after the anti-Communist protests in 2009, when he was beaten by the police. Since then, he has been a constant protester against police abuse and corruption, while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":230096,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-society"],"content_social_share":"Reading Time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

Moldovan renowned protester and civic activist Anatol Matasaru has been sentenced to 2 years’ time in jail with 3 years probation. Matasaru first became known to the public after the anti-Communist protests in 2009, when he was beaten by the police. Since then, he has been a constant protester against police abuse and corruption, while also blasting politicians for their involvement with oligarchs. Thus, in January 2013, Matasaru brought a 2-meter penis-like composition outside the Prosecutor General’s Office. The eccentric protester even stuck a photo of Marian Lupu, then Speaker of Parliament, on the giant phallus.<\/p>\n

The police came, seized the “object” and Matasaru was charged with hooliganism. However, the trial was protracted until yesterday, when he received the 2-year sentence with 3 years on probation. While he hasn’t been actually jailed, Matasaru says that probation means he won’t be able to protest anymore: a wrong chant or poster will get him in jail.<\/p>\n

Matasaru has made it a tradition to celebrate the Prosecutor’s professional holiday in an “inventive” manner. In recent years, besides the dick statue, he has protested wearing a pig mask “symbolizing the corrupt prosecutors”, brought a faeces-like cake for them, little faeces-like statues representing various judges, prosecutors and police officers, a coffin, a blow-up doll, a donkey in a police uniform and a pig in a prosecutor’s uniform, as well as pig-human hybrid composition with a poster reading “I am a corrupt prosecutor. Spit on me”.<\/p>\n

The sentence pronounced against him has generated a wave of support for Matasaru, at least on the internet. Many consider him to be of the few people in Moldova who use humour and art to protest against the corrupt system. They say that while his exhibitions may seem exaggerated, so is the level of corruption among politicians and the law-enforcing bodies. Some even went on to compare him with the cartoonists of Charlie Hebdo.<\/p>\n

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