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Misik, Two Other Activists Given Parole-Like Sentences In Moscow RFE 11 May 2021, 22:45 GMT+10 MOSCOW -- A court in Moscow has handed parole-like sentences to three young pro-democracy activists for splashing paint on a booth at the entrance to the Prosecutor-Generals Office last year to protest against a crackdown on activists. The court on May 11 found the trio guilty of vandalism and sentenced both Igor Basharimov and Ivan Vorobyovsky to 21 months of freedom limitation, while Olga Misik, 19,...

No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:48 0:00 The three activists admitted they splashed paint on the booth, but insisted the action cannot be defined as vandalism as the booth was not damaged. The activists launched the protest during the high-profile extremism case against members of the New Greatness youth group. Many in Russia consider the New Greatness case to be trumped-up by Russians Federal Security Service (FSB). Prosecutors had asked the court to sentence the three activists t...

Asia PacificRussian court rules to curb freedom of teen political activist Reuters 2 minute read A Russian court on Tuesday banned a 19-year-old anti-Kremlin activist from leaving her town near Moscow for more than two years after finding her guilty of vandalism, a sentence her supporters said was unduly harsh. Olga Misik, a journalism student in Moscow, became an anti-government protest symbol as a 17-year-old, when she sat down on the pavement in front of a row of riot police during a 2019 pr...

Moscow Court Sentences Young Activists To Freedom Limitation May 11, 2021 17:40 GMT width No media source currently available 0:00 0:01:48 0:00 A Moscow court has found three young pro-democracy activists guilty of vandalism for splashing paint on a booth at the entrance to the Prosecutor-Generals Office last year to protest against a crackdown on other activists. The court handed down parole-like sentences to the trio on May 11. Both Igor Basharimov and Ivan Vorobyovsky were given 21 months of...

Russia Sentences Teen Activist Who Defied Riot Police With Constitution Reading Updated: May 11, 2021 Olga Misik became a symbol of Russia’s opposition after she read the Constitution in front of riot officers at a protest. Sergei Savostyanov / TASS Russia has sentenced a prominent young activist to over two years of home confinement on vandalism charges amid the country’s widening crackdown on disse...

Misik and two other young defendants, Ivan Vorobyevsky and Igor Basharimov, are charged with vandalizing government buildings. In a gesture of support for those they consider political prisoners, they hung banners on a railing outside a Moscow district court on August 8, 2020, and then splattered red paint on a security booth outside the Prosecutor-Generals Office building. Prosecutors claim they caused 3,500 rubles ($47) in damages. Defense attorneys say that the documents provided by prosecut...