Afghanistan, Feb. 14 -- The Saint Petersburg city court has given Afghan journalist Kabiri Hassani a two-year prison sentence for crossing the border from Russia to Europe illegally.

On Tuesday, February 13th, the Saint Petersburg court announced that Kabiri Hassani, an Afghan journalist, and his colleagues had been sentenced to two years in prison for illegally crossing the Russian border into Europe.

Reports indicate that the Afghan journalist enrolled in an English language program at a university in Kyiv after fleeing Afghanistan but decided to head to Europe following Russia's attack on Ukraine.

Hassani and her associates were arrested in Saint Petersburg about two years ago and were sentenced to four years in prison.

Before the ...