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Russian photographer gets 16 years prison for Soviet-era bunker details

A picture released by the Perm Regional Court on Thursday shows photographer Grigory Skvortsov standing inside a glass defendants' box during the reading of the verdict in his treason trial [Handout/Perm Regional Court/AFP]

A Russian court has found a photographer guilty of treason and jailed him for 16 years for allegedly sharing information about Soviet-era underground bunkers with an American journalist.

The court in the western city of Perm sentenced Grigory Skvortsov on Thursday after a closed-door trial, without giving more details on the charges. Skvortsov, who was arrested by Russian authorities in 2023, has denied any wrongdoing.

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