Participants of the banned Viasna movement were sentenced in St. Petersburg

The St. Petersburg City Court has sentenced six activists of the Viasna movement (an extremist organization banned in the Russian Federation and recognized as a foreign agent) to terms of up to 12 years. This was announced on April 8 by a correspondent of Izvestia from the courtroom.

So, Anna Arkhipova was sentenced to 12 years in prison, Jan Ksenzhepolsky — to 11 years, Vasily Neustroev — to 10 years, Pavel Sinelnikov — to 7.5 years, and Evgeny Zateev and Valentin Khoroshenin — to six years and two months in prison (all of them are included in the list of terrorists and extremists in the Russian Federation). The defendants will go to serve their sentences in a general regime colony.

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