Russian opposition activist Ilya Yashin says he told the truth about the Ukraine war in his YouTube videos and his conscience is clear.
Yashin, a longtime ally of jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was arrested in June 2022 for statements that he made on his YouTube channel about war crimes allegedly committed by Russian forces in the Kyiv suburb of Bucha. Yashin’s appeal was turned down two days after his fellow Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza was jailed for 25 years on charges of treason and also, like Yashin, “knowingly spreading false information”. Kara-Murza had made speeches in the US and Europe accusing Russia of bombing civilians in Ukraine.
Discrediting the army can be punished by up to five years in prison, while the offence of “spreading deliberately false information” about it, for which Yashin was convicted, carries a maximum sentence of up to 15 years.Yashin, 39, today said he had told the truth about the war in Ukraine in his video and that his conscience was clear.
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