Veteran Russian human rights campaigner Oleg Orlov appears in court via video as it rejects an appeal against his imprisonment for denouncing Russia's military offensive on Ukraine. In a hearing, the Moscow city court ruled to keep Orlov's two-and-a-half-year sentence unchanged, AFP journalists at the court reported. The 71-year-old Orlov is a key figure of the Nobel Prize-winning Memorial rights group, which has been outlawed by the Kremlin amid a crackdown on civil rights that has escalated since the beginning of the Ukraine conflict. IMAGES