Russian Gets Six Years In Jail For Breaking President Vladimir Putin's Party's Office Window
In recent months, Russian authorities have sentenced several groups of young far left supporters Moscow: A Russian court jailed a mathematician for six years on Monday for breaking a window at an office of President Vladimir Putin's ruling party, causing outrage among activists. Azat Miftakhov was convicted of "hooliganism", his lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina told AFP, adding that he would appeal against the ruling. "We don't agree with this decision... based particularly on two anonymous witness statements that could not be verified," Sidorkina said. Rights group Memorial has called Miftakhov a ...
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