INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
over his public opposition to the war in Ukraine.Under wartime censorship laws, the charges can carry up to five years in prison.But instead
of jail time, state prosecutorssought to only fine the 70-year-old due to mitigating circumstances, including his old age and testimony by
the requested mental health assessment as a discredited Soviet-era practice.The human rights campaigner was accompanied at his trial by
of Russia's civil society by preserving the memory of victims of Soviet-era repression and campaigning against rights violations.Russian
authorities officially dissolved Memorial in 2021, just months before President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops to Ukraine.In March,
