Russian Opposition Politician Jailed for 11 Years Over Ukraine War Criticism
A Russian opposition politician has been sentenced to 11 years in prison for criticizing the war in Ukraine, while his anti-war party was also barred from participating in elections.
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Russia jails anti-war politician for 11 years in further clampdown on dissent - Reuters
Russia jails anti-war politician for 11 years in further clampdown on dissent Reuters
Read full article →Russian court jails a Kremlin critic for 11 years for opposing the war in Ukraine - AP News
Russian court jails a Kremlin critic for 11 years for opposing the war in Ukraine AP News
Read full article →Russia's prominent anti-war politician jailed for 11 years
Lev Schlosberg is found guilty of "discrediting" Russia's army - a verdict he condemns as punishment for his political position.
Read full article →Russia Sentences Politician to 11 Years for Opposing Putin’s War
A Russian court sentenced an opposition politician to 11 years and one month in a penal colony for speaking against President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, the latest anti-war figure to be jailed in a broader crackdown on dissent.
By Bloomberg News
Read full article →Russian court sentences anti-war politician Shlosberg to 11 years in jail
Prominent Russian opposition politician Lev Shlosberg has repeatedly called for a ceasefire in Ukraine and was charged over his participation in an online debate on the war as well as for sharing critical articles about it.
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Mother and son Olga and Nikita Belov were facing torture and death after their asylum claim was repeatedly rejected A Russian family who were on the brink of being deported from Finland after repeatedly being denied asylum – despite the threat of arrest, imprisonment and torture for their pro-Ukrainian activism – have won a court appeal and will have their case reconsidered. Nikita Belov and his mother, Olga Belov, fled their homeland for Finland in 2022 after attracting the attention of Russ...
By Miranda Bryant Nordic correspondent
Read full article →Russian politician sentenced to 11 years for opposing war in Ukraine
Lev Shlosberg, a senior member of the Yabloko party, was sentenced to 11 years and one month in prison on Monday.
Read full article →Deputy head of Russia's only anti-war party Yabloko sentenced to 11 years over social media posts
A Russian court sentenced Lev Shlosberg, deputy head of the anti-war Yabloko party, to 11 years and one month in prison after finding him guilty of "discrediting the armed forces" and spreading "war fake news".
By Viktoriia Shabranska
Read full article →Russia: Prison for opposition leader over war criticism
Lev Shlosberg of the Yabloko party has been sentenced to over 11 years in a penal colony for criticizing the war in Ukraine. "A single person is imprisoned, yet fear seeps into the hearts of millions," he said in court.
Read full article →Kremlin critic jailed in Russia for 11 years for opposing the war in Ukraine
A Russian court on Monday convicted a prominent opposition politician for speaking out against the war in Ukraine and sentenced him to 11 years and one month in prison in the latest crackdown leading up to next month’s parliamentary election. The verdict against Lev Shlosberg, a senior member of the Yabloko party, was another step by the Kremlin to stifle dissent since Russia invaded its neighbour in February 2022. Yabloko is the only official political party overtly opposing the war. In a...
By Associated Press
Read full article →Russia’s Supreme Court upholds ban on anti-war party Yabloko
Russia’s Supreme Court on Monday upheld the exclusion of liberal opposition party Yabloko from September’s legislative elections, eliminating the country’s only explicitly anti-war party from the ballot, as dozens of the party's supporters were detained outside the court. The decision comes amid a wider crackdown on critics of Moscow’s war in Ukraine.
By FRANCE 24
Read full article →Russia jails opposition politician for 11 years over Ukraine war criticism
Lev Shlosberg was sentenced to 11 years in jail on Monday
By Mark Trevelyan
Read full article →Russian court jails a Kremlin critic for 11 years for opposing the war in Ukraine
Read full article →Russia jails opposition politician for 11 years for anti-war comments, Mediazona says - The Straits Times
Russia jails opposition politician for 11 years for anti-war comments, Mediazona says The Straits Times
Read full article →Russia jails anti-war politician for 11 years in further clampdown on dissent
A senior member of Russia’s liberal Yabloko party was sentenced on Monday to 11 years and one month in a penal colony for condemning the war in Ukraine, which he described at his trial as a catastrophe for Russia. Lev Shlosberg, the party’s deputy chairman, was accused of discrediting Russia’s armed forces and spreading false […]
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The high court upheld its earlier ruling that the pro-peace party had made copyright violations and broken campaign finance laws.
Read full article →He stayed in Russia and kept saying the war in Ukraine must end. Now opposition politician Lev Shlosberg is going to prison for more than 11 years.
Judge Viktoria Malyamova of the Pskov City Court sentenced Lev Shlosberg, deputy chair of Russia’s Yabloko party, to 11 years and one month in a penal colony for repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian military and for spreading “false information” about the Armed Forces, the independent Russian news outlet Mediazona reported.
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