– Another American Given 12-Year Prison Sentence In Russia:
More Americans have been locked up in Russian this week. First, a Moscow court issued a 15-day sentence to a US citizen traveling in the country on charges of petty hooliganism. The man, identified as Joseph Tater, was detained on August 12. TASS described that he had “behaved aggressively” towards a police officer while checking into a Moscow hotel with incorrect documents.
But the much more serious case involves dual American-Russian citizen Ksenia Karelina, who has just been sentenced to 12 years in prison for “treason” by a Russian court after she donated about $50 to a pro-Ukraine charity. She had been detained last January in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg while visiting family.
The 33-year-old ballet dancer and spa working lives in Los Angeles, but after being apprehended while on the visit to Russia, “The court found Ksenia Karelina guilty of high treason and sentenced her to 12 years’ imprisonment in a general regime colony,” according to a statement of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court.
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