Moscow city councillor gets seven years' jail for anti-war comment
Dhaka, July 9 -- A Moscow district councillor was jailed for seven years on Friday 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".
Alexei Gorinov, a member of the Krasnoselsky district council, told a council meeting on March 15, where a children's drawing contest was discussed, that Russia was waging a war of aggression against Ukraine.
"What kind of children's drawing contest can we talk about for Children's Day ... when we have children dying every day?" he says in a recording of the meeting posted on YouTube, reports Reuters.
He was arrested under Article 207.3 of the criminal code, passed shortly after Russia in...
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