Politician sentenced to eight and a half years over series of posts about atrocities in Bucha
A Russian court has sentenced the opposition politician Ilya Yashin to eight and a half years in prison, in the most high-profile case to date of a Russian dissident being jailed for opposing the invasion ofYashin was tried on charges of spreading false information meant to discredit the Russian army, under a law introduced afterlaunched its invasion, due to a series of posts in May about the murder and torture of Ukrainian civilians by Russian troops in the town of Bucha.
A veteran of Russia’s anti-Putin opposition, Yashin was one of a small group of vocal opponents to the war who chose not to leave the country,that he believed that “anti-war voices sound louder and more convincing if the person remains in Russia”.
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