A court in Moscow sentenced a Russian journalist in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of disparaging the military, the latest move in the authorities' relentless crackdown on dissent.
Television journalist Alexander Nevzorov speaks in St. Petersburg, Russia, Friday, Feb. 24, 2012. A court in Moscow on Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2023, sentenced Alexander Nevzorov, a Russian television journalist and former lawmaker in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of disparaging the military, the latest move in the authorities' relentless crackdown on dissent.
MOSCOW — A court in Moscow on Wednesday sentenced a Russian journalist in absentia to eight years in prison on charges of disparaging the military, the latest move in the authorities’ relentless crackdown on dissent. Nevzorov was accused of posting “false information” on social media about the Russian shelling of a maternity hospital in the Sea of Azov port of Mariupol. Moscow has fiercely denied its involvement.
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