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Sochi activists sent to prison for 3 years

By Nataliya Vasilyeva
Published February 12, 2014 3:39pm ET
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Sochi activists sent to prison for 3 years
A spectator waves a RUssian flag during the ski jumping portion of the Nordic combined at the 2014 Winter Olympics, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2014, in Krasnaya Polyana, Russia. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia) | Gregorio Borgia

SOCHI, Russia (AP) — An activist who shed light on the environmental impact of Olympic construction in Sochi was ordered Wednesday to serve three years in prison for spray-painting a fence.

A court in the regional capital of Krasnodar converted the suspended sentence given to Yevgeny Vitishko in 2012 into a prison term, according to his lawyer, Alexander Popkov.

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