Russia jails opposition politician for 11 years for anti-war comments
The sentence combines wartime censorship penalties with a prior foreign agent conviction, after prosecutors said he spread false claims about the Russian military.
- On Monday, a Pskov City Court judge sentenced Lev Shlosberg, Deputy Chair of Yabloko, to 11 years and one month in prison for "discrediting" and spreading "fake news" about the Russian military.
- Prosecutors charged Shlosberg under Article 280.3 and Article 207.3 for an online debate and a Telegram post sharing a Daily Mirror cover, which he argued predated Russia's wartime censorship laws.
- Throughout the trial, Shlosberg maintained his innocence, calling the proceedings a "political trial," while the judge refused to question him directly, instead reading transcripts from earlier sessions.
- The verdict follows an August 10 Supreme Court decision banning Yabloko, the only registered political party opposing the war, from next month's parliamentary elections amid heavy pressure from authorities.
- Amnesty International condemned the sentencing as a reprisal for anti-war expression, while Shlosberg warned that "cemeteries in our country" are growing rapidly, underscoring the conflict's mounting human toll.
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The Russian opposition party Schlosberg must go to the penal camp for eleven years because of discrediting the army. His party Jabloko - the only one in Russia to fight for an end to the Ukraine war - must not take part in the elections.
A judge of the Pskov City Court, Victoria Malamova, sentenced the Vice-President of the Yablo Party, Lv Schlosberg, to 11 years and one month of the colony, under articles on the re-creditation of the Russian army (art. 280.3, para. 1) and military "fakes" (art. 207, para. 2 (d)).
On Monday, a Russian court sentenced prominent opposition politician Lev Shlosberg to 11 years in prison for his criticism of the Moscow offensive in Ukraine. “The 63-year-old politician is one of the few Kremlin opponents who remained in Russia after the beginning of the harsh repression against the dissent that followed the attack on Ukraine in 2022. Yabloko’s vice president, the only anti-war party that continues to operate in the country, ha…
A Russian court has refused the appeal of the anti-war party Jabloko, but it wants to continue to fight for its participation in the Duma election. Meanwhile, its deputy chairman must go to the labour camp.
The vice-president of the Russian anti-war party Iabloko, Lev Chlosberg, was sentenced Monday to 11 years and a month in prison for remarks criticizing the offensive of Moscow in Ukraine, launched in February 2022.
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