A Russian man who was sentenced to two years in prison for discrediting the army and had his daughter taken from him has been detained in Belarus after fleeing house arrest, a lawyer said on Thursday.
Lawyer Dmitry Zakhvatov said Alexei Moskalyov, 54, had been arrested in the capital Minsk, most likely as a result of turning on his mobile phone and giving away his location.
Moskalyov fled house arrest in the town of Yefremov, south of Moscow, in the early hours of Tuesday. Later the same day, a court sentenced him in absentia to two years in a penal colony for discrediting the armed forces under a law passed shortly after Russia invaded Ukraine last year. Vladimir Biliyenko, a lawyer who has been representing the family, told Reuters he expected it would take several days to complete the formalities for Moskalyov to be sent back to Russia.
He was later charged in connection with separate anti-war comments he was alleged to have made on social media.
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