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A judge is poised to sentence two members of the Oath Keepers who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a military-style formation with other members of the far-right extremist group during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot

Washington (AFP) - To Stewart Rhodes, his conviction for leading the far-right Oath Keepers militia in the January 6, 2021 assault on the US Capitol made him America's premier political prisoner -- the equivalent of Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

The founder of a far-right group involved in the insurrection riot at the US capitol has been jailed for eighteen years.

Matthew Bokoski, who entered the U.S. Capitol, was sentenced to 36 months of probation, according to court records.

The founder of the Oath Keepers group has been sentenced to 18 years in jail over his role in the US Capitol riots.

Rhodes was among the many Texans who played key roles in fomenting, planning or fueling the Jan. 6, 2021, violence at the U.S. Capitol.

Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on May 25, 2023, in the wake of his November 2022 conviction for seditious conspiracy. Rhodes led an effort to keep former President Donald Trump in office after Trump lost the 2020 presidential election, including…

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Sentence is the longest yet for a participant in the January 6 attack on the US Capitol, led by Donald Trump supporters.

In remarks before the judge handed down his sentence, Stewart Rhodes called himself a “political prisoner.”

Washington (AFP) - The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia was handed an 18-year prison sentence Thursday for sedition in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol, the toughest penalty given yet over the January 6 assault.