POC: Ilya Yashin, convicted in military “fakes” case, transferred to penal colony before sentence comes into force
Opposition politician Ilya Yashin , sentenced to eight and a half years in a case of disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army, was transferred from Moscow "to another subject of the Russian Federation," Interfax reports, citing Alexei Melnikov, the executive secretary of the Moscow POC. "It is worth noting that Yashin was transferred from the pretrial detention center before the court's decision came into legal force," Melnikov said.