Reuters, 30/12 14:09 CET
MOSCOW (Reuters) – A Russian court on
Wednesday sentenced a blogger to five years in jail for what it said was
his extremist activity on the Internet after he urged people to attend a
protest against high transport fares and criticised Russian
intervention in Ukraine.
Vadim Tyumenstev, 35, from the Siberian region of Tomsk,
was also banned from using the Internet for three years in a case which
Russian human rights activists said violated his rights to a proper defense.
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