The court reduced the sentence of FBK operator Pavel Zelensky by a month in the case of two tweets

The Moscow City Court reduced the sentence of ex-cameraman Pavel Zelensky, convicted in the case of calls for extremism (Part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code), by one month. This was reported by the wife of the convicted person, Natalia Zelenskaya, on Twitter.

“The appellate court changed the verdict of the district court and sentenced Zelensky to imprisonment for a period of 1 year and 11 months, to be served in a general regime colony with a ban on engaging in activities related to the administration of sites of information and communication networks, including the Internet, for a period of 2 years,” the press service of the court told Mediazona.

In mid-April, Zelensky was sentenced to two years in a general regime colony, having been found guilty of calls for extremism due to tweets about the self-immolation of Nizhny Novgorod journalist Irina Slavina. The first publication said: “Let's ******* [beat] this lack of power,” the second one said, “I hate you, Putin, Peskov, Volodin, and other scum, you are behind this. You can consider my words a call, but you bitch bastards are unworthy of life.”

The former FBK employee was taken into custody in the courtroom. The case was considered in a special manner, since Zelensky admitted guilt. The day after the decision, he refused a lawyer “for personal reasons,” and on May 19, the convict was transferred from the Moscow pre-trial detention center to a colony.