FILE PHOTO: Grigory Melkonyants, the co-chair of Russia’s election monitoring group Golos (Voice), who is in custody after he was accused of cooperating with an "undesirable organisation", reacts inside an enclosure for defendants before a court hearing in Moscow, Russia February 24, 2025. REUTERS/Yulia Morozova/File Photo
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian prosecutor on Monday requested six years in prison for Grigory Melkonyants, co-chair of the independent election monitoring group Golos.
Melkonyants was arrested in August 2023, accused of organising the work of an "undesirable organisation". He has pleaded innocent.
