A Russian military court sentenced this Monday (22), in absentia, the spokesman for technology giant Meta, Andy Stone, to six years in prison for “justifying terrorism on the internet”, according to the allegations.
“Andy Mark Stone is found guilty of committing a crime provided for in article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public justification of terrorism), and is sentenced to six years in prison, to be served in a general regime penitentiary establishment,” states the sentence, cited by the news agency TASS.
The prosecutor's office had requested seven years in prison for Stone, who became the target of a search and arrest warrant in November last year.
The Russian Investigative Committee (CIR) accused Stone, in March 2023, of announcing the temporary lifting of the ban on his platforms and of advocating acts of violence against the Russian military, considering it a form of political expression against the war in Russia. Ukraine.
In March 2022, a month after the start of the war in Ukraine, the Russian court banned the activities of Meta, the controller of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and classified it as an “extremist organization”, in a decision that was condemned by the States United. (With EFE Agency)
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