President Putin’s critic Alexei Navalny sentenced to 9 years in prison
Russian opposition chief Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to 9 years in a maximum-security jail on Tuesday 22. The distinguished Kremlin critic was convicted on fraud fees by Moscow’s Lefortovo court docket over allegations that he stole from his Anti-Corruption Basis. Navalny, 45, is at present serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a detention heart east of the Russian capital after being…
Russian opposition chief Alexey Navalny has been sentenced to 9 years in a maximum-security jail on Tuesday 22.
The distinguished Kremlin critic was convicted on fraud fees by Moscow’s Lefortovo court docket over allegations that he stole from his Anti-Corruption Basis.
Navalny, 45, is at present serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a detention heart east of the Russian capital after being arrested in February 2021 for violating probation phrases, a verdict he mentioned was politically motivated.
After Tuesday’s sentence was introduced, Navalny wrote on Twitter: “9 years. Effectively, because the characters of my favourite TV collection ‘The Wire’ used to say: ‘You solely do two days. That is the day you go in and the day you come out.'”
He added: “I even had a T-shirt with this slogan, however the jail authorities confiscated it, contemplating the print extremist.”
The Russian state-owned information company RIA reported that Navalny, who was additionally fined 1.2 million rubles (roughly $11,500), will enchantment the responsible verdict, in line with his lawyer.
Tuesday’s sentence was handed down on the Pokrov penal colony by a visiting session of the Lefortovo court docket.
Whereas Decide Margarita Kotova learn out the accusations in opposition to him, Navalny appeared unmoved by the proceedings, trying by way of some court docket paperwork on a desk in entrance of him.
After the trial, Olga Mikhailova and Vadim Kobzev, two attorneys appearing for the opposition chief, have been pushed away in a jail van, RIA reported, earlier than they have been launched a short while afterwards.
Based on the information company, the attorneys have been initially taken away for failing to adjust to calls for to unblock the highway after the court docket session.
Navalny was first detained in February 2021 after his arrival in Moscow from Berlin, Germany, the place he had spent a number of months recovering from poisoning with nerve agent Novichok — an assault he blames on Russian safety providers and on Russian President Vladimir Putin himself.
