Russian blogger given 5-year sentence for criticizing Ukraine intervention

2016/1/8 12:25:35

The Putin regime’s claims of freedom of speech in Russia are again proven to be lies as a blogger is sent to jail for criticizing Russia’s Ukraine intervention and the corruption and incompetence of local authorities

 

 


December 31, 2015

 

A Russian court has sentenced a blogger to five years in a Siberian penal colony for inciting hatred and extremism after he criticized Russian intervention in Ukraine and, separately, accused local authorities of corruption and incompetence.

 

The decision on December 30 by the court in Tomsk, western Siberia, also banned Vadim Tyumentsev from using the Internet for three years.

 

Human rights activists have condemned the sentence.

 

The non-governmental group Sova, which works on monitoring nationalism and xenophobia in Russia, called it too harsh, considering it was only for posting videos online.

 

Russia's Memorial human rights group said the jail sentence was outrageous and called for the verdict to be overturned.

 

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