Court hands protester three years for attacking policeman Nigerians Nigeria
A Moscow court on Tuesday sentenced a protester to three years in prison for attacking policemen during an opposition rally in July, Russian news agencies reported.
“The court sentenced Ivan Podkopayev to three years in a penal colony,” the judge in Moscow’s Tverskoi district court said, state news agency RIA Novosti reported. During an unauthorised rally on July 27, Podkopayev pepper-sprayed law enforcement agents and two police suffered “chemical burns to the eye,” RIA Novosti reported.
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