Gorinov, a 63-year-old former Moscow councilor, was sentenced to two years in prison in 2022 when he was filmed criticizing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine at a city council meeting. Specifically, he tried to hold a minute of silence for the victims of the invasion and questioned whether it was a good idea for the city to hold a children’s drawing competition when children are dying in Ukraine.
On Friday, he received another three years from the court in Vladimir for further criticism, which he was supposed to spread in the prison hospital, the BBC explains. The prosecution claimed that Gorinov tried to influence other prisoners with “terrorist ideology”. The defense, on the other hand, stated that these were fabricated accusations, for which the authorities obtained documents by placing Gorinov in a cell with criminals convicted of theft and rape and ordering them to record him.
In addition to adding another three years to his sentence, the court also ordered that Gorinov must be moved to a stricter prison facility. During his appearance before the court, the Russian politician insisted that he does not support terrorism, but only wants peace.
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“All my life I have been against aggression, violence and war and have devoted myself only to peaceful activities: science, learning, education, government and public activities. I never imagined that I would live to see such a level of decline in my country’s political system and its foreign policy, when thousands of ordinary citizens who prefer peace and are against war would be accused of slandering the armed forces and justifying terrorism and tried,” he said. at the beginning of his speech.
“Let’s stop this massacre, which no one needs – not us, not the citizens of Ukraine. I am guilty of the fact that, as a citizen of my country, I allowed this war to happen and I was unable to stop it,” added Gorinov.
When Gorinov mentioned the number of victims in his speech, which according to the Russian Ministry of Defense on the Ukrainian side exceeds half a million people, while the ministry does not disclose Russian losses, the judge interrupted him, according to The Moscow Times. He let Gorin finish his speech, but before that he ordered a fifteen-minute break and urged him to think about the content of the speech.
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