Prominent opposition figure Ilya Yashin gets more than eight years for discussing alleged war crimes.
Yashin told his supporters the verdict was "hysterical" and the government had merely shown its weakness
One of few Kremlin critics to stay in Russia after it invaded Ukraine, Yashin continued to speak out against the war.Soon after the invasion, Russia made reporting "false information" a crime.He denied the charge, but Judge Oksana Goryunova said he had knowingly disseminated fake information about the Russian armed forces.
He told the court that he had given both the official Russian and Ukrainian versions of the story. During the video, he shared images and stories from the scene by the BBC and others. Russia's defence ministry has condemned the accusations as a fabricated "provocation" and images of dead civilians as "staged".
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