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Russian enviro who criticized Olympics sentenced 3 years of forced labor
2014-02-15 01:50:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: An activist who coauthored a report cataloging the appalling environmental damage wreaked by Olympic construction will spend the next three years in a Russian penal colony. Yevgeny Vitishko, a 40-year-old scientist, is ostensibly being punished for the crimes of spray-painting a fence and swearing in public. Vitishko was among seven members of Environmental Watch of the North Caucasus detained on the eve of the Olympics. An appeal of the decision to jail him for three years was rejected during...
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