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Russian state prosecutors have asked a court to sentence jailed opposition politician Alexei Navalny to a further 20 years in a penal colony on various criminal charges including extremism, with a verdict expected on Friday.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin's fiercest and most vocal domestic opponent, is already serving sentences totalling 11-1/2 years on fraud and other charges, which he says were trumped up to silence him. - Raising funds to finance extremism.
A Moscow court will deliver its verdict on a slew of new charges against Navalny, a vociferous Putin critic and Russia’s most prominent opposition leader, later today.
Moscow, Aug 4 (EFE). Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced Friday to a further 19 years in prison for extremism, among other charges. Navalny, 47, will have to serve the sentence in a special regime prison, where repeat offenders or those who have received life sentences are held. The trial took place at …
In Russia, the Moscow City Court, sitting in a closed hearing at the Vladimir maximum security penal colony, has sentenced politician Alexei Navalny to 19 years in prison, and this time the politician is to be sent to a special-regime penal colony.