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Supreme Court Reduces Sentence of Russian Woman Pardoned for Treason March 15, 2017 — 15:07— Update: Mar. 15 2017 — 13:40Oksana Sevastidi leaves the Lefortovo prison in Moscow, March 12, 2017. Denis Tyrin / APRussia’s Supreme Court has upheld a verdict of high treason against Oksana Sevastidi, a Russian woman jailed for seven years after sending two text messages to a friend living in Georgia.Sevastidi, who received a pardon from Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, saw her sentence symbolically reduced to just three years imprisonment, but was not acquitted of the crime, her lawyer Ivan Pavlov told The Moscow Times. Sevastidi was convicted for sending two text messages to a friend from Georgia about military equipment she had seen close to the Russian city of Sochi in April 2008. The security services claimed the Georgian was a spy, and Sevastidi was convicted to seven years’ imprisonment in 2015.https://themoscowtimes.com/news/russias-supreme-court-reduces-sentence-of-pardoned-oksana-sevastidi-57433
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