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One of Russia’s longest-serving and most respected human rights campaigners (nhà vận động nhân quyền), Oleg Orlov, has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for denouncing the war in Ukraine.

Orlov, who is 70, has served for more than two decades as one of the leaders of the Memorial human rights organisation, which won a share of the Nobel peace prize in 2022 a year after being banned (cấm) in Russia.

Speaking to the judge and the prosecutor (công tố viên), Orlov said: “Isn’t it scary to watch what our country, which you probably also love, is turning into? Isn’t it scary that in this absurdity, in this dystopia (viễn tưởng), maybe not only you and your children will have to live, but also, God forbid, your grandchildren?”

Russia’s supreme court ordered the closure of Memorial in 2021, in what many saw as a watershed moment in Vladimir Putin’s crackdown on independent thought (đàn áp tư tưởng độc lập).

In his closing statement, Orlov also praised (khen ngợi) Alexei Navalny, the opposition leader (lãnh đạo phe đối lập) who died in an Arctic prison this month.

source: theguardian,