Published time: 26 Apr, 2019 15:09 Edited time: 26 Apr, 2019 15:17
Maria Butina, a Russian gun-rights activist accused of spying for the Kremlin, has been sentenced to 18 months in prison by a Washington DC judge. Butina will be deported to Russia after serving her sentence.
Before her sentencing hearing on Friday, Butina pleaded with the judge for leniency.
“My parents discovered my arrest on the morning news they watch in their rural house in a Siberian village,” she told the court. “I love them dearly, but I harmed them morally and financially. They are suffering from all of that. I destroyed my own life as well. I came to the United States not under any orders, but with hope, and now nothing remains but penitence.”
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Source : RT - Daily news
US court sentences Russian gun activist Maria Butina to 18 months in jail
US court sentences Russian gun activist Maria Butina to 18 months in jail
