This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission.
The Kiselyovsk City Court in the Siberian region of Kemerovo on March 9 sentenced local activist Bulat Shumekov to seven years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia’s armed forces. Shumekov was charged in April after he published a video about Russia’s ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine. Before that he was fined three times for openly condemning Russia’s aggression against Ukraine.
