Alexei Gorinov was punished for questioning whether his Moscow district should hold a children’s drawing competition while “children are dying in Ukraine”

A Moscow councillor serving time in jail for speaking out against Russia’s war in Ukraine has been given an additional three years in prison.

Alexei Gorinov, 63, was jailed for seven years in 2022 after he was filmed criticising the invasion in a city council meeting.

At the time, he was believed to be the first person to be sentenced under laws targeting dissents following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

On Friday, Gorinov appeared at a court in the city of Vladimir to be sentenced for charges of “justifying terrorism”.

A judge also ordered that Gorinov be moved to a stricter prison facility.

Gorinov has been jailed for a further three years, after a second case was put against him. He is accused of criticising Russia’s offensive while in a prison hospital, AFP news agency reported.

Prosecutors said last winter Gorinov tried to convince inmates with what they called the “ideology of terrorism”.