# Udaltsov sentenced to four and a half years over Bolotnaya protest

Date: 2014

On 24 July 2014 a Moscow court sentenced Left Front leader [Sergei Udaltsov](/people/sergei-udaltsov) to four and a half years in a penal colony for organising 'mass riots' at the May 2012 Bolotnaya Square protest; rights groups called the case political.

## People

- Sergei Udaltsov: https://factrail.ai/people/sergei-udaltsov

## Sources

- https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2017/08/08/udaltsov-freed-after-more-than-4-years-prison-for-anti-kremlin-protest-a58608

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/udaltsov-sentenced-bolotnaya-2014-07-24