Russian blogger gets 5-year jail for pro-Ukraine videos

December 31, 2015 02:01

A Russian blogger was today sentenced to five years in a Siberian penal colony for 'inciting hatred and extremism' by posting a video on YouTube which criticised pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine.

A court in Tomsk, western Siberia, also banned Vadim Tyumentsev, 35, from using the Internet for three years. Russian rights activists, meanwhile, said that Tyumentsev's sentence was 'too harsh, considering it was only for posting videos online'.

In the videos, Tyumentsev called for refugees from east Ukraine's separatists areas of Donetsk and Lugansk to be expelled from Russia, accusing them of 'betraying Ukraine'.

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