27/06/2022 - Anna Shishova’s poignant yet chilling documentary methodically reveals the perversity and manipulation inherent to state repression in Russia
27/06/2022 - Anna Shishova’s poignant yet chilling documentary methodically reveals the perversity and manipulation inherent to state repression in Russia
Russian Activist Convicted Under ‘Repeat Protest’ Law Walks Free From Prison Dec. 16, 2020 Konstantin Kotov was the second person ever to be prosecuted under a law criminalizing repeated participation in unsanctioned rallies. Andrei Vasilyev / TASS
Russian activist Konstantin Kotov was released from prison Wednesday after serving 18 months for “multiple breaches” of Russia’s protest law.
Kotov, who was arrested during the summer 2019 Moscow election protests, was the second person ever to be prosecuted under the controversial law criminalizing repeated participation in unauthorized rallies. A Moscow court cut the 35-year-old computer programmer’s four-year jail sentence to 18 months this spring. news
The OVD-Info police-monitoring website reported that Kotov walked free from a penal colony 100 kilometers east of Moscow in the dark early hours of Wednesday.