A Russian navy court convicted this Monday in absentia the spokesman for the expertise large Meta, Andy Stone, to six years in prison for “justification of terrorism on the web.”
“Andy Mark Stone is discovered responsible of committing a criminal offense offered for in half 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (public justification of terrorism)and he’s sentenced to 6 years in prison, to be served in a common prison institution,” in accordance to the ruling, cited by the TASS company.
The prosecutor had requested for Stone 7 years in prison. Russian Justice had declared Stone wished and captured final November.
The Russian Investigative Committee (CIR) accused Stone in March 2023 of saying the non permanent lifting of the ban on its platforms and of name for violence in opposition to Russian navycontemplating it a kind of political expression in opposition to the battle in Ukraine.
In March 2022, a month after the begin of the battle in Ukraine, Russian Justice banned the actions of Meta, father or mother firm of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, and described it as an extremist group, a ruling that was condemned by the United States.
