Source: US News & World Report
“A Russian court on Thursday rejected an appeal by dissident Alexei Gorinov against a three-year prison sentence for ‘justifying terrorism,’ a human rights group said. The sentence was meted out to Gorinov last November on top of a seven-year term he was already serving after being convicted in 2022 of spreading ‘deliberately false information’ about the Russian army and its actions in Ukraine. … Gorinov, 63, is one of the most prominent remaining jailed critics of Russia’s government and the war in Ukraine following a big East-West prisoner swap in August 2024 that saw the release of others including politician Vladimir Kara-Murza and human rights activist Oleg Orlov. Last month he was placed on an official register of ‘terrorists and extremists.’ (04/03/25)