U.S. journalist Masha Gessen was convicted in absentia in Russian of spreading false information about the military and sentenced to eight years in prison.
U.S. journalist and author Masha Gessen was convicted in absentia Monday by a Moscow court on charges of spreading false information about the military and was sentenced to eight years in prison. The Moscow-born Gessen, a staff writer for the New Yorker and columnist for the New York Times, is a prominent critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin and an award-winning writer.
The prosecutions were carried out under a Russian law adopted days after the invasion of Ukraine began that effectively criminalized any public expression about the war deviating from the Kremlin narrative. Russia maintains that its troops in Ukraine only strike military targets, not civilians. Gessen, a dual U.S.-Russian citizen, lived in Russia until 2013, when the country passed legislation against the LGBTQ+ community, and now lives in the United States.
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