Moscow city councillor jailed for 7 years for anti-war comment

Alexei Gorinov told a council meeting on March 15 that Russia was waging a war of aggression against Ukraine.

A Moscow district councillor has been jailed for seven years for criticising Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in what a Kremlin-critical lawyer said was the first case of anyone going to prison under a new law on “fake information”.

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/7/8/moscow-city-councillor-jailed-for-7-years-for-anti-war-comment

 

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