Moscow city councillor Alexei Gorinov, serving a seven-year sentence for criticising Russia's invasion of Ukraine, holds a placard reading "Stop killing. Let's stop the war" as he stands inside a defendants' cage during a new court hearing against him for "justifying terrorism", in Vladimir, Russia, November 27, 2024. Social Media/via REUTERS
LONDON (Reuters) - A Moscow district councillor serving a seven-year sentence for criticising Russia's invasion of Ukraine staged an anti-war protest from the courtroom cage on Wednesday at the start of a new trial against him on charges of justifying terrorism.
In summer 2022 Alexei Gorinov became the first individual in Russia to be jailed under a wartime censorship law, introduced soon after the invasion launched that February, which punished the dissemination of "deliberately false information" about the Russian army.
