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Russia court rejects appeal by jailed rights advocate Oleg Orlov

A Russian police officer puts handcuffs on Oleg Orlov during a court hearing in Moscow, in which he was sentenced to two and a half years in prison [File: Tatyana Makeyeva/Reuters]

Oleg Orlov, a Russian human rights campaigner, has lost an appeal against his imprisonment for criticising the war in Ukraine.

A judge at the Moscow city court hearing on Thursday ruled that Orlov’s two and a half year sentence, handed down in February, should remain “unchanged”.

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