MOSCOW. Aug 7 (Interfax) - Moscow's Basmanny District Court has convicted in absentia and sentenced writer Dmitry Glukhovsky, designated as a foreign agent in Russia, to eight years in a standard security penitentiary for spreading fakes about the Russian Armed Forces, the court's press service told Interfax.
"Glukhovsky has been sentenced to eight years of incarceration in a general correctional colony," the court said on Monday.
Additionally, the defendant has been banned from "engaging in any activities associated with administering websites of electronic or information and communication networks, including the Internet, for four years."
Glukhovsky's jail term will be counted from the day of his apprehension in Russian territory or extradition to Russia.
Glukhovsky has been convicted of publicly spreading, under the guise of true reports, knowingly false information about the Russian Armed Forces' actions.
The case files include information on the writer's publications about Russia's special military operation in Ukraine.
According to case file, "from March 10 to May 10, 2022, while staying outside of the Russian Federation, Glukhovsky posted on his social media accounts knowingly false information under the guise of true reports about residential houses, schools and hospitals being, as he put it, intentionally shelled and bombarded allegedly by Russian service members, who he said also committed other crimes during the special military operation in the Donetsk People's Republic and Ukraine," the Russian Prosecutor General's Office said earlier.
Glukhovsky was earlier placed on the international wanted list and arrested in absentia in Russia.
Dmitry Glukhovsky is a Russian science fiction writer, journalist and TV reporter. He is the author of the bestselling novel Metro 2033, which has been translated into 37 languages. Glukhovsky is also the author of It's Getting Darker, Metro 2034, Stories of Motherland, Futu.re, and Text.