Since starting his sentence in December, he has continued to speak out through letters and statements released through his lawyers, emphasising that not all Russians are to blame for the bloodshed in Ukraine. Ilya Yashin, a Moscow councillor, ally of jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny and one of the few prominent Russian opposition figures not to leave the country, was handed eight and a half years in prison over his YouTube stream in which he discussed alleged atrocities carried out by Russian soldiers in the Ukrainian town of Bucha. Ilya Yashin: Navalny ally who dared to speak about Bucha Ilya Yashin gives a peace sign in a defendant’s glass cage before a verdict hearing at the Meshchansky District Court in Moscow on Decem
Kotenochkina escaped arrest by fleeing the country. Gorinov did not plead guilty, instead holding up a sign in the dock saying: “Do you still need this war?” He was sentenced to seven years. Gorinov was charged with the new crime of spreading “fake news” about the war in Ukraine and was the first to be imprisoned for it. Alexey Gorinov: Moscow councillor who asked, ‘Do you still need this war?’ Moscow Councillor Alexey Gorinov, accused of ‘disseminating clearly false information about Russia’s army’, holds a placard reading, ‘Do you still need this war?’, as he stands inside a defendant’s cage during a court hearing in Moscow on JĪt a council meeting in March 2022, Moscow Councillor Alexey Gorinov and a fellow deputy, Elena Kotenochkina, spoke out against a proposal to hold a children’s drawing contest and dancing competition while Ukrainian “children were dying”. Here, we take a look at 12 other notable cases over the past 13 months. Since Russia invaded Ukraine last year, the Kremlin has tightened the screws on critics.Īccording to the human rights monitor OVD-Info, at least 482 people have been charged under Russia’s strict new wartime censorship laws. “The struggle for peace has become a crime and of course, are very worried for Oleg,” Svetlana Gannushkina, a member of Memorial, told Al Jazeera. Even after its closure, the organisation, including Orlov, carried on working under a different name. Orlov co-chaired Memorial, Russia’s leading human rights organisation, which has chronicled abuses from the Soviet era to the present until it was outlawed two years ago. If convicted, he could serve up to three years in prison. In another sign of Moscow’s punishing crackdown on those who question its war in Ukraine, the 69-year-old veteran human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov was detained this week on charges of “repeatedly discrediting the armed forces”.
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