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Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin is placed in solitary confinement

2024-05-22 15:17:21, Kosova & Bota CNA

Kremlin critic Ilya Yashin is placed in solitary confinement

Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who is serving an eight-and-a-half-year prison sentence for his criticism of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, has been placed in solitary confinement ahead of a planned visit with his parents.

Yashin said on his Telegram channel on May 22 that the prison administration on May 17 sent him to solitary confinement for 15 days because he "was late leaving the barracks after a morning wake-up call."

Yashin said the move was deliberate to prevent his three-day stay with his parents in the prison premises. The visit was scheduled for May 20.

Yashin, 39, a vocal critic of the Kremlin, is one of the few opposition politicians to remain in Russia after a wave of crackdowns against supporters of the now-deceased Alexei Navalny and those who spoke out against Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Yashin's sentence was the harshest ever handed down in defamation cases after new laws came into effect in Russia punishing those who oppose the invasion of Ukraine.

The criminal case against Yashin was initiated in July last year. The accusation against him was made after the publications he made on YouTube about the crimes allegedly committed by the Russian army in the Ukrainian city of Bucha.

This critic of the Kremlin has been arrested several times in the past due to his protest activities.

Yashin earlier said that the authorities were trying to force him to leave Russia, but he refused./ REL





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