District attorneys asked for Russian reporter Maria Ponomarenko to be sentenced to 9 years in prison on Tuesday, the Kommersant business daily reported, citing Ponomarenkos lawyer.Ponomarenko was jailed in St.
Petersburg in April for releasing details about the Russian bombing of a theater in the Ukrainian city of Mariupol on the No Censorship Telegram channel.Ponomarenko is because of appear in court once again on Feb.
14 to give her last statement in the trial, her attorney Dmitry Shitov said.In September, Ponomarenko attempted suicide to object her pretrial incarceration.
In July, she was hospitalized and given an inpatient psychiatric examination.Shortly after the start of the invasion, Russia passed a law criminalizing the sharing of information about the so-called unique military operation in Ukraine that differed from the Kremlins narrative.
The law also introduced jail terms of as much as 15 years for the publication of purposefully incorrect information about the Russian military.On Monday, Ukrainian-born Russian reporter and blogger Veronika Belotserkovskaya was sentenced to 9 years in prison in absentia for spreading purposefully false details about the intrusion of Ukraine.