{"id":1521616,"date":"2024-02-27T10:00:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T10:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/27\/russian-human-rights-campaigner-oleg-orlov-sentenced-to-jail-for-denouncing-war"},"modified":"2024-02-27T10:00:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T10:00:39","slug":"russian-human-rights-campaigner-sentenced-to-jail-for-denouncing-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2024\/02\/27\/russian-human-rights-campaigner-sentenced-to-jail-for-denouncing-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian human rights campaigner sentenced to jail for denouncing war"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oleg Orlov, 70, tells court he has committed no crime and regrets nothing before being sentenced to two and a half years in prison<\/p><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/viewer.gutools.co.uk\/world\/live\/2024\/feb\/27\/russia-ukraine-war-live-france-macron-ground-troops-latest-news\">Ukraine war \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li><\/ul><p>One of Russia\u2019s longest-serving and most respected human rights campaigners, Oleg Orlov, has been sentenced to two and a half years in jail for denouncing the war in Ukraine.<\/p><p>Orlov, who is 70, has served for more than two decades as one of the leaders of the Memorial human rights organisation, which won a share of the Nobel peace prize in 2022 a year after being banned in Russia.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/27\/russian-human-rights-campaigner-oleg-orlov-sentenced-to-jail-for-denouncing-war\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/27\/russian-human-rights-campaigner-oleg-orlov-sentenced-to-jail-for-denouncing-war\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oleg Orlov, 70, tells court he has committed no crime and regrets nothing before being sentenced to two and a half years in prisonUkraine war \u2013 live updatesOne of Russia\u2019s longest-serving and most respected human rights campaigners, Oleg Orlov, has bee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18926,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8722,6,24,376,1310],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521616"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18926"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1521616"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1521617,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1521616\/revisions\/1521617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1521616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1521616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1521616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}