MOSCOW: A Russian news editor in Siberia was sentenced to eight years in prison on Friday (Aug 30) for publishing critical material on Moscow's offensive in Ukraine, which has been accompanied in Russia by a massive crackdown on dissent.
Russia n video journalist Sergey Karelin, accused of working for a group founded by the late Russia n opposition politician Alexei Navalny, foreground, is escorted to a courtroom in the Basmanny District Court in Moscow, Russia , Aug 29, 2024.
Sergei Mikhailov, a journalist and editor in the mountainous Altai region, was arrested in the first weeks of the Kremlin launching the military campaign in 2022, shortly after repressive laws that banned criticism of Russia's actions in Ukraine were adopted.A court in the city of Gorno-Altaisk sentenced the 48-year-old after finding him guilty of"knowingly spreading fake information" about the Russian army.
He said the Russian state narrative of calling the Ukrainian leadership"fascist" had"created a whole virtual universe in the information space, and this fog became stronger and stronger".
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