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Interview with Alina in the Guardian today.
quote:Latvian detention centres are still based on an austere Soviet model. Twice a day inmates receive two pieces of dry bread and weak tea; at midday they are handed a portion of soup or thin gruel. There are no beds in the cells, no mattresses and no pillows; the prisoners sleep on bare wooden planks. Alina Lebedeva, 16, has already spent three nights in a windowless remand cell. Theoretically, if the case against her is pursued, she could face the prospect of a further 5,472 nights inside.
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Some commentators believe that had she not been an ethnic-Russian - a minority within the state since it became independent from the Soviet Union - she would have received gentler treatment. "There are double standards here," Russian journalist Igor Vatolin said. "I can cite incidents when Latvians have committed genuine terrorist acts and received minimal sentences, while ethnic Russians have been handed 10-year sentences for relatively trivial offences."
Alexander Laivinish, the state lawyer assigned to Lebedeva because of her underage status, believes the unprecedented charge was rashly imposed by the national security police. He hopes the case will be dropped, but remains gloomy about her prospects: "Even if she is handed a suspended sentence, the case could make life extremely difficult and hard for her to continue studying or to find a career."
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When he visited her in the remand centre, Laivinish begged Lebedeva to recant her political statements. "Things would have been much easier if she'd agreed to say she hated Charles for what he did to Diana, or because she was offended by his baldness. I advised her to write him an abject letter of apology," he said. "Although she realised the seriousness of the charge, she refused to back down."
"Why should I apologise?", Lebedeva demanded, calmly sipping strong tea at a friend's house, still dressed in the dirty jeans and bright violet jumper she was wearing last Thursday. When she explains her political convictions she is composed and articulate; it is only when she sweeps her arms through the air enthusiastically demonstrating exactly how she thwacked the prince does that trace of ecstatic teenage defiance become apparent.
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now lit's talk about the rich forever shiting opone the people. this war is not about eney thing but money and the greed of the u.s. take it from me i live in this fucking country . and i think thay shood make her a hero she is standing up for truth and the eternal question. why the are the brit's suporting us in the end we will shit on thim just like we shit on every one and this is coming from some one who love's my country fears my gov 
sorry every one whine i hear about a 16 year old girl going to jail it shacks me up and i just get pissed 