Prosecutor Seeks Nine Years In Prison For Moscow Anti-War Activist

Dmitry Ivanov (file photo)

A prosecutor asked Moscow’s Timiryazev district court on March 1 to sentence Dmitry Ivanov, the administrator of the Protesting MGU (Moscow State University) Telegram channel, to nine years in prison on a charge of discrediting Russia's armed forces. Ivanov served 25 days in jail on another case but was not released when his sentence was due to end in June. Instead, he was charged again over his social media posts about Russia's full-scale aggression against Ukraine. To read the original story by Current Time, click here.