Politics

Russia Sends Official to Prison for 7 Years for Anti-War Comment

  • Alexei Gorinov, local council member, was arrested in April
  • Gorinov punished for calling war a war: Amnesty International
Alexei Gorinov holds a sign reading “Do you still need this war?” inside a glass cell during the verdict hearing in his trial at a courthouse in Moscow on July 8.Photographer: Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images
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A Moscow district council member was sentenced to seven years in prison for making anti-war comments, the harshest punishment yet under a law enacted after Russia invaded Ukraine.

Alexei Gorinov was found guilty of spreading “knowingly false information about activities of Russian military forces,” Interfax and other Russian media reported on Friday.

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