Ksenia Karelina, who has American and Russian citizenship, was arrested during a family visit last January in Yekaterinburg, about 1,600km (1,000 miles) east of Moscow.
Prosecutors had sought a 15-year jail term. The court in Yekaterinburg found her guilty of high treason and sentenced her to imprisonment in a general regime penal colony.
Russian human rights activists said while living in the US she had made a single transfer of $51.80 on the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine on 22 February 2022. The FSB is thought to have discovered the transaction on her phone.
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Moral of the story:
- Don’t travel to Russia
- If you have to travel to the US, Russia, China, or any of a number of other countries that will happily invade your privacy at the border, leave your phone behind and carry a burner phone
I hope ukraine continues liberating Russia
