Veteran rights campaigner Oleg Orlov urged a Moscow court on Wednesday to acquit him of discrediting the armed forces by speaking out against the war in Ukraine, saying Russians had the right to disagree with their president.
Orlov, 70, was defending himself in a case based on a November 2022 article in which he wrote that Russia under President Vladimir Putin had descended into fascism.
"And if the ideas of a part of Russia's citizens about their own interests don't match those of the commander-in-chief, don't they have the right to talk about this?" In its own summing-up, the prosecution said that citizens had duties as well as rights such as freedom of speech, and these included the duty to obey laws,Based on Orlov's age and state of health, however, the prosecution said it was seeking a fine of 250,000 roubles rather than the prison sentence of up to three years that it could have sought under laws passed soon after Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year.Orlov is one of Russia's best known and most respected rights advocates.
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