Prominent opposition politician Ilya Yashin has actually been transferred to a detention facility some 1,000 kilometers from Moscow although his sentence must still be approved by an upper court, his legal representative said Tuesday.
A Moscow court sentenced Yashin, 39, to eight-and-a-half years in jail previously in December after he was charged with spreading incorrect info about the Russian armed force for comments he made during a YouTube stream about the civilian massacre performed by the Russian army in the Kyiv residential area of Bucha this spring.The Moscow city councilors whereabouts were unknown when the citys prison monitoring commission reported on Monday that Yashin had been moved to a various region.
Lawyer Maria Eismont stated that Yashin was transferred to a pre-trial detention facility in the city of Izhevsk, the capital of the republic of Udmurtia some 1,000 kilometers east of Moscow.Yashins prison sentence has actually not yet worked, as an upper court should still reject his appeal and validate his sentence, which suggests he needs to stay in pre-trial detention rather than being sent to a chastening colony.Eismont paradoxically called Yashins transfer an early New Years gift from the authorities, noting that his mom had actually been arranged to visit him in Moscow later this week.