The prominent Russian opposition figure Ilya Yashin has been remanded in custody for two months – with the prospect of many years of imprisonment. A court in the capital Moscow ordered the detention on Wednesday. Yashin is accused of allegedly spreading false reports about Russia’s army and thus “discrediting” it.
If convicted, the Kremlin critic faces up to ten years in prison. According to the Interfax agency, his lawyer Vadim Prokhorov announced that he intends to appeal against the detention ordered until mid-September.
Yashin was one of the last vocal opponents of the Kremlin who were still at large until recently. Actually, he should have been released on Wednesday morning from a 15-day detention in which he sat for alleged resistance to state authority. Instead, due to the new allegations, investigators came to his place of residence on Tuesday evening to search his house.
The press spokeswoman for the imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Kira Jarmysch, wrote on Twitter that the threat of imprisonment was state punishment for Yashin’s courage not to leave Russia.
Many other opposition figures have fled abroad. Since the start of the war against Ukraine four and a half months ago, Russia has been cracking down on critics and those who think differently. Because of a relatively new law, spreading alleged “fake news” about Russia’s armed forces now faces up to 15 years in prison.
On the basis of this law, Moscow local politician Alexey Gorinov was sentenced to seven years in prison last week.
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