A Russian court docket convicted imprisoned opposition chief Alexei Navalny of extremism costs and sentenced him to 19 years in jail Friday.
Navalny is already serving a nine-year time period on a wide range of costs that he says had been politically motivated.
The brand new costs towards the politician relate to the actions of Navalny’s anti-corruption basis and statements by his prime associates.
In 2021, Russian authorities outlawed the muse and the huge community of Navalny’s workplaces in Russian areas, calling them extremist organizations and exposing anybody concerned to attainable prosecution.
Navalny’s allies say the costs retroactively criminalize all the muse’s actions since its creation in 2011.
Navalny, 47, is President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest foe and has uncovered official corruption and arranged main anti-Kremlin protests.
He was arrested in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning. He blamed that poisoning on the Kremlin, which denied involvement.
The authorities beforehand sentenced him to 2½ years in jail for parole violations after which to a different 9 years on costs of fraud and contempt of court docket. It wasn’t instantly clear if he’ll serve the brand new sentence concurrently with these
