Ural human rights activist Alexey Sokolov was sentenced to two years of compulsory labor for displaying prohibited symbols related to the Facebook logo.

Ural human rights activist Alexey Sokolov was sentenced to two years of compulsory labor for displaying prohibited symbols related to the Facebook logo.

@meduzalive 03 Jul 2026, 07:36

Alexey Sokolov, a human rights defender from the Sverdlovsk region, has been sentenced to 2 years of forced labor for links to Facebook on social media, during which he spoke about torture in local penal colonies.

@ostorozhno_novosti 03 Jul 2026, 07:06