{"id":517850,"date":"2026-02-16T12:45:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T09:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reform.news\/?p=517850"},"modified":"2026-02-16T13:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T10:20:07","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-appeal-in-black-nightingales-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/supreme-court-rejects-appeal-in-black-nightingales-case","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court Rejects Appeal in \u201cBlack Nightingales\u201d Case"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal in the \u201cBlack Nightingales\u201d case. The verdict of the court of first instance has been upheld and has entered into legal force, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office reported.<\/p>\n<p>The defendants in the case were detained in spring 2024. At the same time, a propaganda film titled \u201cChildren in the Crosshairs. Recruited by the Enemy\u201d aired on state television, reporting the detention of seven teenagers for \u201ccooperation with Ukrainian special services\u201d. Some of them were accused of an \u201cact of terrorism\u201d and \u201ctreason\u201d. The film claimed that six teenagers had allegedly formed an \u201canarchist cell \u2018Black Nightingales\u2019\u201d, which was supposedly created \u201cunder the guidance of the National Liberation Army of Ukraine\u201d by a 16-year-old Ukrainian citizen, <b>Maria Misyuk<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p><i>\u201cBy the verdict of the criminal chamber of the Brest Regional Court, Misyuk, as the organiser and leader of the criminal group, was sentenced, on the totality of crimes, to 13 years of imprisonment; Zhihalyou and Barysau to 12 years; Zakharoshka to 10 years and six months; and Pulinovich to 10 years and three months,\u201d<\/i> the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>The convicted individuals filed appeals challenging the legal qualification of their actions and requesting a change in the verdict and a reduction of their sentences.<\/p>\n<p>It should be noted that Maria Misyuk was released in November last year and handed over to Ukraine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Supreme Court has rejected the appeal in the \u201cBlack Nightingales\u201d case. The verdict of the court of first instance has been upheld and has entered into legal force, the Prosecutor General\u2019s Office reported. The defendants in the case were detained in spring 2024. At the same time, a propaganda film titled \u201cChildren in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":517849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sharing_image":{"poster":"https:\/\/reform.news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/6992ef5c51901.jpg","width":1200,"height":630,"template":"691142dd","mode":"auto"},"_sharing_image_fieldset":{"dTVKfmI95PYT":"Supreme Court Rejects Appeal in \u201cBlack Nightingales\u201d Case"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[142339,142338],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main","category-news"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/517849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reform.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}