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One of the last opposition activists remaining in Russia was taken into custody on Wednesday for two months for allegedly spreading false information about Russia's military.
The opposition member is in Moscow.
Russia charged Yashin, who was already in jail for disobeying the police, but was set to be released this week, and searched his home on Tuesday.
A Moscow court ordered a vocal critic of the Kremlin to be held until September 12 for sharing "fake information" about the Russian army, a charge for which he could face up to fifteen years in prison.
The leader of the People's Freedom Party, one of the first opposition parties created in the last years of the Soviet Union, shouted "Russia will be free" after his speech.
After CNN aired an interview with Kara-Murza in which he called the Kremlin a "regime of murderers," Russia arrested him.
The "shameful criminalization of freedom of expression must stop" was added to the statement by the organization.
A total of 16,361. That is how many people have been arrested in Russia for sharing anti-war sentiment since the country invaded Ukraine.
A month after Russia began its invasion of Ukraine, the country passed legislation that made it illegal to spread false news about the Russian military. The new legislation came at the same time that Russia was blocking publications such as the Voice of America.
Several prominent critics of Russia have been poisoned over the last 20 years, including Kara-Murza, who was poisoned in 2020, and Navalny, who was arrested in 2021. The Federal Security Service poison squad tracked both Kara-Murza and Navalny before they became ill from suspected poisonings. The events have not been investigated by the Russian government. Russia found Navalny guilty of fraud and sentenced him to nine years in prison. The editor-in-chief of an independent Russian newspaper who won a peace prize for his coverage of the Russian government was attacked with red paint.
A Russian opposition politician is in jail.
A lawyer says that a criminal case has been opened against an activist.
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