⚡️ Igor Paskar has been sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment
The Southern Federal District Military Court have found him guilty of burning a Z-banner, and throwing a “symbolic” Molotov cocktail at the stone steps of the Krasnodar FSB building.
The sentence specifies that Paskar will spend the first three years in prison, and then the remaining five and a half in a strict-regime colony.
More information in English on Paskar’s case can be read here.
⚡️ Igor Paskar has been sentenced to 8.5 years of imprisonment
The Southern Federal District Military Court have found him guilty of burning a Z-banner, and throwing a “symbolic” Molotov cocktail at the stone steps of the Krasnodar FSB building.
The sentence specifies that Paskar will spend the first three years in prison, and then the remaining five and a half in a strict-regime colony.
More information in English on Paskar’s case can be read here.
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