The prosecutor requested 9 years of a general regime colony for the Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who is accused of distributing fakes about the Russian army, Russian media reported.
“Yashin, guided by the motive of political hatred, reported false information about the actions of the RF Armed Forces in the city of Buch. The prosecution considers his guilt fully proven, as the linguistic examination and testimony of witnesses indicate,” the prosecutor said.
The opposition lawyer Maria Aismont said that the prosecution did not provide evidence. Yashin also performed in court. “I not paid attention to the term, but to the trembling hands of the prosecutor of Belov,” he said, noting that he tried to be objective during the broadcast, on which he spoke about the events in Buch, and only wanted to “get to the bottom of the truth.”
The case of Yashin began to be considered in court on November 28. According to the prosecution, the opposition during Stream on YouTube “told the audience that the Russian military killed civilians of the Ukrainian Buchi, and at the same time dismissively spoke about the authorities operating in Russia. Ilya Yashin is one of the few Russian opposition politicians who fundamentally refused to leave Russia after the outbreak of war in Ukraine, Moscow Times.
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