INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
A Moscow court on Friday sentenced prominent opposition politician Ilya Yashin to eight and a half years in jail for spreading "false"
information about the Russian military in his criticism of the Kremlin invasion of Ukraine.The 39-year-old Moscow city councilor was found
guilty for saying that occupying Russian forces in Ukraine were responsible for the massacre of civilians in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha this
Navalny, Yashin is one of hundreds of Russians to face prosecution under new laws that criminalize spreading information contradicting the
Kremlin line about the war, though this is the harshest punishment yet to be handed down for such a case
was depressing it was not unexpected
politicians, gathered outside the courthouse in Moscow ahead of the verdict and sentencing on Friday
case "another shameless and lawless verdict by Putin's court" and said it would "not silence Ilya and should not intimidate the honest
people of Russia." "This is yet another reason why we need to keep fighting, and I have no doubt we will ultimately win," Navalny said via
