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Court in Russian jail blogger for five years over Tweet advocating violence
 
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Tue, 3 Sep 2019   ||   Nigeria,
 

A Russian court sentenced a blogger to five years in jail on Tuesday after finding him guilty of calling for violence against the children of police officers in a post on Twitter.

Moscow’s Presnensky district court found Vladislav Sinitsa guilty on extremism charges and ruled he must serve five years in a penal colony, Russia’s three main news agencies reported from the court.

 

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