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Russian Court Gives Circassian Activist Suspended Sentence On Drug Charge Considered Politically Motivated
March 03, 2021 00:48 GMT
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A Russian court has given the leader of an ethnic Circassian civic organization a three-year suspended sentence on narcotics charges, in a case human rights groups consider politically motivated.
Martin Kochesoko, the leader of the Khabze nongovernmental organization in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria, was also given one year of probation, the Memorial human rights center said on March 2.
Kochesoko was detained in June 2019 while traveling with a friend on a fishing trip in Russia’s North Caucasus region.
Police and hooded soldiers stopped their car and allegedly found 268 grams of marijuana.
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