Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexei Gorinov was convicted again on Friday and given a three-year prison sentence for opposing Russia’s ongoing war in Ukraine.
The three-day trial against Gorinov again revealed Russian intolerance of dissent.
Gorinov, 63, is a former member of a Moscow municipal council who is already serving a seven-year prison term for public criticism of the invasion, according to The Associated Press.
Noting his previous conviction and sentence, a court in Russia’s Vladimir region ordered Gorinov to serve a total of five years in a maximum-security prison. Russia’s independent news site Mediazona quoted Gorinov’s lawyer, who said the new sentence means he will spend a year more behind bars compared to his previous sentence.
Gorinov was first convicted in July 2022, when a Moscow court sentenced him to seven years in prison for “spreading false information” about the Russian army at a municipal council meeting. Gorinov was accused of expressing skepticism about a…