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Activist Ola Bini sentenced to one year in prison after Ecuadorian court overturns acquittal

Originally published: Peoples Dispatch on April 8, 2024 by Tanupriya Singh (more by Peoples Dispatch) | (Posted Apr 11, 2024)

Arrested on the same day as his friend Julian Assange in 2019, software developer and activist Ola Bini has faced years of persecution in Ecuador. Despite being declared innocent in 2023, an appeals court has now convicted him for “Attempted Non-Consensual Access to a Computer System”.