Less than three weeks after the Moscow City Court upheld a 30-month sentence handed down to veteran rights activist Oleg Orlov, he was moved from a detention center in the city of Syzran, the Memorial human rights group said on July 29. The group said Orlov's lawyer was informed that his client had been transferred to an unspecified facility. Detention center officials refused to say why and when Orlov was transferred. The 71-year-old was sentenced in February on a charge of repeatedly discrediting Russia's military. The charge stems from Orlov's public condemnation of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To read the original story by RFE/RL's Russian Service, click here.
Location Of Imprisoned Veteran Russian Rights Defender Orlov Unknown
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