Bulat Shumekov
Biography
Civil activist from Kiselevsk. 15 April 2022 detained and taken into custody by court order in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army. On 9 March 2023, sentenced to seven years in a general regime colony. On 28 June, the court of appeal reduced the sentence to five and a half years.
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