{"id":19635,"date":"2024-11-29T13:27:58","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T13:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19635"},"modified":"2024-11-29T13:27:58","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T13:27:58","slug":"kremlin-critic-jailed-for-three-more-years-over-ukraine-war-opposition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gpt.m2mbeta.com\/?p=19635","title":{"rendered":"Kremlin critic jailed for three more years over Ukraine war opposition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alexei Gorinov was punished for questioning whether his Moscow district should hold a children’s drawing competition while “children are dying in Ukraine”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A Moscow councillor serving time in jail for speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine has been given an additional three years in prison.<\/p>\n

Alexei Gorinov, 63, was jailed for seven years in 2022 after he was filmed criticising the invasion in a city council meeting.<\/p>\n

At the time, he was believed to be the first person to be sentenced under laws targeting dissents following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Gorinov appeared at a court in the city of Vladimir to be sentenced for charges of “justifying terrorism”.<\/p>\n

A judge also ordered that Gorinov be moved to a stricter prison facility.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gorinov has been jailed for a further three years, after a second case was put against him. He is accused of criticising Russia’s offensive while in a prison hospital, AFP news agency reported.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said last winter Gorinov tried to convince inmates with what they called the “ideology of terrorism”.<\/p>\n

Gorinov’s defence said authorities put notorious prisoners with him – a convicted robber and rapist – who they said recorded their conversations with him.<\/p>\n

“I am for peace and you like war,” Gorinov said after the sentence was announced, according to the Mediazona website.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Gorinov also called for Russia to end its almost three-year offensive and asked Ukrainians for forgiveness.<\/p>\n

“Let’s stop this slaughter that nobody needs – not us, not the citizens of Ukraine,” he said.<\/p>\n

“The guilt that I have is that I, as a citizen of my country, let this war happen and was not able to stop it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The opposition councillor was arrested in late April 2022<\/a>, more than a month after he addressed a district meeting in the Krasnoselsky area of north-east Moscow.<\/p>\n

At the meeting Gorinov objected to the idea of a children’s drawing contest being held when children were dying in Ukraine. <\/p>\n

He had also tried to start the council meeting with a moment’s silence to remember the victims.<\/p>\n

Another opposition councillor who supported his remarks has since fled Russia.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Source: <\/em> www.bbc.com\u2026<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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