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Sochi environmental activists sent to prison for 3 years

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Sochi environmental activists sent to prison for 3 years

SOCHI, Russia — An environmental activist in Sochi has been sent to jail for three years for spray-painting a fence.

A court in the regional capital of Krasnodar on Wednesday ruled to convert the suspended sentence given to Yevgeny Vitishko in 2012 into a prison term, said his group, Environmental Watch on the North Caucasus.

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