MOSCOW, June 22. /TASS/. A Moscow court has sentenced two persons to a term of two years in a penal colony for the use of violence against a policeman during an unauthorized rally in Moscow on January 23, attorney Tatiana Okushko told TASS on Tuesday.
"The court sentenced [Olga] Bendas and [Alexander] Glushko to two years in colony each," she said.
According to the investigators, Glushko, 32, and Bendas, 35, hit a policeman on duty in the head and body several times during the unauthorized rally in central Moscow on January 23. They were charged with the use of violence against a public officer (part 1, article 318 of the Russian Criminal Code).