A jailed Kremlin critic was re-convicted and given a new sentence for opposing the war in Ukraine.

TALLINN, Estonia (AP) – Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Gorinov was convicted again Friday of opposing Russia’s war in Ukraine and served three years in prison.

The quick, three-day trial against Gorinov, a former low-level activist, underscored Moscow’s intolerance of any dissent.

Gorinov, a 63-year-old former member of Moscow’s municipal council, is already serving seven years in prison for public criticism of the all-out attack.

Taking into account his previous conviction and sentence, the Vladimir regional court in Russia ordered him to serve five years in a maximum-security prison, a facility with stricter conditions than the one he is currently in. Independent Russian news site Mediazona quoted Gorinov’s. the lawyer says it means he will spend a year more in prison compared to his previous sentence.

Gorinov was first found guilty in July 2022, when a Moscow court sentenced him to 7 years in prison for “spreading false information” about the Russian army at a municipal council meeting. Gorinov is said to have expressed doubts about the children’s art competition in his area when he said that “every day children die” in Ukraine.

He was the first known Russian to be sent to prison under a 2022 law that bans any public coverage of the war that deviates from the official narrative.

His arrest, conviction and imprisonment shocked many. In a statement to the Associated Press from his prison sentence in March 2023, Gorinov said that “the authorities need an example to show others (of an ordinary person), not an ordinary person.”

Authorities filed a second case against him last year, according to his supporters. He was accused of “justifying terrorism” in conversations with his cellmates about the Ukrainian Azov militia, which Russia dismissed as a terrorist organization, and the 2022 Crimean bridge bombing, which Moscow considered an act of terrorism.

Gorinov dismissed the allegations on Wednesday, reports the independent news site Mediazona. He quoted him as telling the court that he simply said that the Crimean Peninsula is under Ukraine and called Azov part of the Ukrainian military.

Gorinov’s trial began on Wednesday in the Vladimir region, where he is serving time from his previous conviction. Photos from the court, published by Mediazona, showed an exhausted Gorinov in the defendant’s cage, with a hand-drawn peace sign on a piece of paper covering his prison badge. He was holding a handwritten placard that read: “Stop killing.” Let’s stop the war.”

He had a partial lung removed before prison and suffered from respiratory infections in prison.

In his closing statement in court on Friday, Gorinov repeatedly defied and criticized the Russian authorities for the war in Ukraine.

“My crime is that I, as a citizen of my country, allowed this war to happen and I could not stop it,” said Mediazona.

“But I would like the organizers, collaborators, supporters of war, and prosecutors of those who promote peace to share with me my guilt and responsibility. I still live in the hope that this will happen one day. In the meantime, I am asking those who live in Ukraine and our fellow citizens who were victimized by the war to forgive me,” said Gorinov.

According to OVD-Info, a prominent rights group that tracks political arrests, about 1,100 people are involved in criminal cases because of their anti-war status as of February 2022. A total of 340 are currently or have voluntarily surrendered to medical facilities.