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RFE/RL: Russian opposition politician Yashin gets another 10-day jail term

Published Aug. 30, 2019 at 10:58 am

Politicians Ilya Yashin and Sergei Mitrokhin, the two of the candidates barred from running for September's elections to the Moscow city legislature, arrive for a meeting with Russia's Central Election Commission head Ella Pamfilova in Moscow on July 23, 2019.

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Russian opposition politician Ilya Yashin has been handed yet another 10-day jail term.

Moscow’s Tver district court on August 29 sent Yashin back to jail after finding him guilty of organizing an unsanctioned protest in the Russian capital on August 3.