MOSCOW, August 28. /TASS/. Russia’s Second Western District Military Court has sentenced a former freelance adviser to the Ukrainian presidential office, Alexey Arestovich (designated as a terrorist and extremist in Russia), to 11 years in prison in absentia after finding him guilty of inciting terrorism and spreading fake news about the Russian army, the court told TASS.
"For all of his crimes, Arestovich was sentenced to 11 years in prison, with the first three years to be served in a penal colony and the remainder in a general security penal colony. The court also barred him from administering websites and channels using electronic or information and telecommunications networks for four years," the court’s press service said. The sentence has not yet entered into legal force and can be appealed.
According to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, Arestovich was convicted under Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code, which covers public calls to engage in terrorist activity using electronic or information and telecommunications networks, and Part 2 of Article 207.3, concerning the public dissemination of knowingly false information, presented as reliable reports, about the use of the Russian Armed Forces.
