Judge Vacates Activist’s Sentence, But Keeps Him Behind Bars

Expand Konstantin Kotov, on video link in a court in Moscow © 2020 Human Rights Watch A Russian man sentenced to four years in prison for his involvement in a peaceful protest will spend at least two more months – unjustly – behind bars. Konstantin Kotov is a 35-year old software engineer who in September 2019 was sentenced to four years in prison for involvement in peaceful protests because he repeatedly flouted Russia’s abusive public assembly law. Kotov’s case has been wending its way through the appeals process, including the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court. The good news…

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