Defiant to the end, the 39-year-old, who has been declared a foreign agent by the state, bore no grudge against the judge who handed down his stiff sentence
Opposition politician Ilya Yashin, one of the few remaining voices in Russia prepared to speak out against Vladimir Putin and his war in Ukraine, was sentenced to eight and a half years in jail in Moscow this Friday.
Once that is over, the 39-year-old will also be barred from posting anything online for a further four. The judge told him he would be able to get his iPhone 11 back after that.Putin says Russia will have to make deal with Ukraine down the line - war latest The verdict is hardly a surprise. In a powerful closing statement on Monday, Yashin, who is declared a foreign agent in Russia, had addressed the judge saying she knew he was not guilty and that he in turn knew what kind of pressure the system put on her.
He bore her no grudge for the inevitable guilty verdict, he said."But it is better to spend 10 years behind bars as an honest man than silently burning with shame for the blood that your government sheds." His main crime in the eyes of the state was to publish a video on his YouTube channel documenting the Russian army's alleged crimes in Bucha, a city in Ukraine, to his almost 1.4 million followers.
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