Tuesday, August 03, 2010

News at Eleven: But Yulia Privedennaya, 34, who was handed

a 4 1/2-year suspended sentence, said the commune's goal was only to educate the young through poetry.

Privedennaya was convicted of being the leader of a militant group, as well as depriving people of freedom and torturing them.

Privedennaya, a senior activist with PORTOS, an acronym that stands for "The Poetic Society for Development of the Theory of the Common Good" in Russian, promised to appeal.

from The Moscow Times: Court Declares Poet a Militant Leader

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