MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Wednesday overturned the conviction of anti-Kremlin activist Ildar Dadin, who was the first person sent to jail under new rules that made staging some forms of non-violent protest a criminal offence.
Dadin was sentenced in December 2015 to three years in jail - later reduced on appeal to two and a half years - for conducting a series of peaceful, one-man protests against Kremlin rule.
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