Dozens detained in Russia as only anti-war party struck from election
Russia’s Supreme Court rejected an appeal by the anti-war party Yabloko against a ban on it taking part in September’s parliamentary elections.
Minutes earlier, the party’s prominent anti-war politician Lev Shlosberg was sentenced to 11 years and one month in a penal colony for “discrediting” the country’s armed forces and “spreading false information” about them.
Yabloko was struck off the ballots earlier this month over accusations that the party publicly supports the “international LGBT movement”, which Russia’s Supreme Court designates as extremist.
The party rejects the accusations.
Yabloko was the only registered party to oppose Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine launched in 2022.
Original source: https://www.bbc.com/
