A 65-year-old defense attorney says she nearly died in a Russian pretrial detention center. Now prosecutors want to imprison her for 15 years for treason.
Meduza · 10 Nov 2026

A 65-year-old defense attorney says she nearly died in a Russian pretrial detention center. Now prosecutors want to imprison her for 15 years for treason.

Prosecutors have asked a court to sentence Kaliningrad lawyer Maria Bontsler to 15 years in prison, the legal news project Slovo Zashchite reported, citing lawyer Ilya Sidorov, who visited her in pretrial detention.


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