Prominent Russian Rights Defender Sentenced to Eight Years in Prison
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Tanya Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch, with Sergey Lukashevsky, director of Moscow’s Sakharov Center, at the Andrei Sakharov Anniversary Conference in May 2021.
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Today, a Russian court sentenced one of my dearest friends, Sergei Lukashevsky, to eight years’ imprisonment because he expressed outrage at the Kremlin’s war on Ukraine. Fortunately, he had left Russia following the February 2022 full-scale invasion of Ukraine.I’ve known Sergei for over two decades. A historian and rights defender, …read more
Source:: Human Rights Watch
