A Russian military court has sentenced a resident of Russia’s Mordovia to six years in a penal colony for inciting terrorism using mass media, the court’s press service reported on Friday.
The man, who is not named in the press release, is also banned from engaging in amateur radio communication activities for three years.
According to the human rights project OVD-Info, the person in question is Mordovian amateur radio operator Kirill Akimov. He was arrested in June 2022 on charges of calling for violence against Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his supporters.
A local newspaper Stolica S previously reported that Akimov had created his own radio station, broadcasting under the pen name “Mordovian farmer”. In his two broadcasts from last year — on 28 February and 14 March — he allegedly spoke out against the Russian invasion of Ukraine, urged people in Ukraine and the rest of Europe to be violent towards Putin’s supporters, and take action against the Russian president “via annihilation”.
