The sentence given is: The sentence for a St Petersburg activist has been reduced in a case concerning anti-war pickets.

The St Petersburg City Court has replaced the general regime penal colony sentence given to translator and activist Elena Abramova with a settlement colony term in a case concerning repeated ‘discrediting’ of the army (part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code), her OVD-Info lawyer Igor Skachko has reported.

The activist will be transported to the place where she is to serve her sentence under escort. The court ruled that each day Abramova spent in pre-trial detention counts as two days in the settlement colony.

In March, Abramova was sentenced to two years in a general regime penal colony because of two pickets where she held signs reading: “Freedom for Navalny! Freedom for all political prisoners! No to war” and “A world without war. Russia without Putin.” Until the verdict, she had been under restrictions on certain activities and was taken into custody in the courtroom.

The prosecutor cited the fact that Abramova has a minor child as a mitigating circumstance, but said that “given the nature and danger of the crime committed,” the activist could only be reformed in a place of deprivation of liberty.