Russia jails rights campaigner and from Nobel prize-winner

Veteran human rights activist Oleg Orlov was sentenced on Tuesday (February 27) by a Moscow court to two and a half years in prison after he was found guilty of discrediting Russian's armed forces in a trial that has been condemned by international observers as politically motivated. Orlov, a leader of the rights group Memorial that won a share of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022, was charged after taking part in anti-war demonstrations and writing an article entitled "They wanted fascism. They got it."