MOSCOW (AFP) – A Russian court on Wednesday found an elderly rights activist guilty on a fraud charge she said was aimed at her work investigating Russian troop deaths in Ukraine, but then immediately amnestied her.Lyudmila Bogatenkova, who heads a committee of soldiers mothers in the southern Russian region of Stavropol, was given a one-year suspended sentence but had the punishment dropped straight away by the court in the town of Budyonnovsk.Charges were laid against me after I published a list of the Russian soldiers who had been killed in eastern Ukraine, Bogatenkova, 74, who was charged with fraud in …read more
Source: Dunya TV
