A court in Moscow has extended the pretrial detention of opposition politician Ilya Yashin, who was arrested in July for allegedly spreading false information about the Russian military amid its ongoing unprovoked invasion of Ukraine.
The court ruled on September 9 that the Moscow municipal lawmaker must stay in custody until at least November 12.
Yashin, 39, is an outspoken Kremlin critic and one of the few prominent opposition politicians still in Russia after an exodus prompted by a wave of repression against supporters of jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny and anyone who speaks out against Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Before his arrest, he was fined four times on charges of discrediting the Russian military over his open opposition to the war in Ukraine.
He said in June after he was arrested on the disobedience charge that the authorities were trying to force him to leave Russia, which he refuses to do.
