Russian Blogger Receives One Year of Suspended Sentence for a Comment
Today, July 7, 2008, blogger and musician Savva Terentyev received one year of suspended sentence from the City Court of Syktyvkar (Republic of Komi) for his comments to a blog article by local journalist Boris Suranov, posted on February 15, 2007. On February 22, 2008, the Syktyvkar prosecutors officially charged Savva Terentyev of inciting to social hatred towards policemen in a commentary to an Internet diary entry.