Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev is sentenced in absentia to five and a half years in prison for founding the ‘undesirable’ Andrei Sakharov Institute

According to Meduza, veteran Russian human rights activist Lev Ponomarev has been sentenced in absentia to five and a half years in prison for founding the Andrei Sakharov Institute, an organization Russian authorities have branded 'undesirable.'

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