A Russian court convicted imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny on charges of extremism.
Navalny’s allies said the extremism charges retroactively criminalized all of the anti-corruption foundation’s activities since its creation in 2011. In 2021, Russian authorities outlawed the foundation and the vast network of Navalny’s offices in Russian regions as extremist organizations, exposing anyone involved to possible prosecution.One of Navalny’s associates, Daniel Kholodny, stood trial alongside him after being relocated from a different prison.
On the eve of the verdict hearing, Navalny released a statement on social media, presumably through his team, in which he said he expected his latest sentence to be “huge … a Stalinist term.” Under the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, millions of people were branded “enemies of the state,” jailed and sometimes executed in what became known as the “Great Terror.”
The politician is currently serving his sentence in a maximum-security prison — Penal Colony No. 6 in the town of Melekhovo, about 230 kilometers east of Moscow. On social media, Navalny’s associates urged supporters to come to Melekhovo on Friday to express solidarity with the politician.
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