Lawyer Maria Bunzler was sentenced to 12 years in prison on charges of "treason".
This is reported by Slovo Zashita.
The decision was made by the judge of the regional court in Kaliningrad Alexander Marochkin; The prosecution asked Butzler to be sentenced to 15 years in prison. The time spent in pre-trial detention is counted one day at a time.
Initially, Bunzler was charged under the section of "secret cooperation with a foreign country". In early March she was finally accused of treason.
Maria Buntzler defended defendants in political cases, including Igor Baryshnikov, who was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison in the "fake news" case about the army. Bunzler was arrested on May 28, 2025, and has been in pretrial detention ever since.
Then the investigation determined that in 2024 she allegedly transferred information about the local security forces "which she learned due to her advocacy activities" to the intelligence services of an "unfriendly" country.
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