Russian student and political blogger Yegor Zhukov, who was charged with public appeals for extremist activity and received a three-year suspended sentence, reacts together with his supporters outside a court building in Moscow, Russia December 6, 2019. REUTERS/Maxim Shemetov
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian court unexpectedly freed a prominent student protester on Friday after handing him a three-year suspended jail sentence on extremism charges in a case that has sparked an outcry among the Kremlin's critics.
Yegor Zhukov, a 21-year-old student and politics blogger on YouTube, was among more than 1,000 people detained in Moscow on July 27 in one of the biggest crackdowns of recent years. He and others had taken to the streets to call for free elections.
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