Russian ex-mayor Roizman is last prominent opposition figure who is still in the country
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00:00 France 24's Nick Holdsworth reports.
00:03 He's accused of discrediting the Russian army.
00:06 He's actually already been fined three times for comments criticizing the invasion of Ukraine.
00:13 At the moment he's one of the last leading opposition figures and critics of Vladimir
00:18 Putin who hasn't been imprisoned.
00:22 He was briefly imprisoned last month for a couple of weeks for allegedly posting comments
00:34 relating to Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, which has been outlawed as an
00:41 extremist organization already two or three years ago.
00:46 He denied those charges, said that they turned up on a social media page that he didn't own.
00:54 This current case relates to charges made last August and it relates to a YouTube video
01:01 where he discusses the situation in Ukraine and apparently is critical of the Russian
01:11 army.
01:12 a charge that now carries between three and five years prison term.