Moscow, Nov 18, 2024 (AFP) - Russia prosecutors demand 12 years in jail for journalist's lawyer

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2024-11-18

Russian prosecutors on Monday demanded a 12-year sentence for a lawyer accused of spreading "false information" about Russian troops in Ukraine, after he helped defend a journalist convicted of treason. Lawyer Dmitry Talantov, 63, has been put on trial in the Udmurtia region -- some 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) east of Moscow in the Urals mountains -- charged with several counts of posting false material on the Russian army with the motivation of......

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