Russia: Sentencing for Prominent Kremlin Critic
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Moscow City Court is scheduled to deliver a verdict on April 17, 2023 in the criminal trial against the prominent Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, Human Rights Watch said today. Russian authorities should immediately and unconditionally release Kara-Murza, who has been arbitrarily detained for the past year, as well as other peaceful civic and political activists arbitrarily detained in Russia.

On April 17, 2023, the Moscow City Court convicted Vladimir Kara-Murza on combined charges of treason, dissemination of “false information” about the conduct of the Russian Armed Forces, and involvement with an “undesirable organization”, and sentenced him to 25 years in maximum security prison with an additional fine of 400,000 rubles (approximately USD 5,000), restriction of freedom for 1.5 years, and a ban on journalistic activities for 7 years.

  • maynarkh@lemmy.ml
    2·
    1 year ago

    Man, China is not even siding with Russia. China is against the West, it’s just looking to gain as much as it can from the situation.

    It’s as likely to annex Siberia as help.

    • pancake@lemmy.ml
      1·
      1 year ago

      I don’t think anyone is siding with anyone. People are just pragmatic. And we should be too! Anyway, I’m not really into politics atm, gotta take care of my mental health, but honest thanhs for engaging <3