Oleg Orlov, co-chair of Nobel Peace Prize winning group, sentenced to 30 months in jail in Russia
Oleg Orlov, the 70-year-old co-chair of Nobel Peace Prize winning Memorial Human Rights Centre, was given a 30-month jail sentence by a Moscow court on Tuesday over his criticism of the war in Ukraine. The veteran human rights advocate was convicted of “repeatedly discrediting” the Russian army in an article he wrote denouncing the invasion of Ukraine, which started on February 24, 2022 and sparked an ongoing war now in its third year. In Russia, authorities officially still refer to the conflict as a “special military operation” rather than an invasion. Any criticism of the war has been censo...