Russia Navalny: Jailed opposition leader found guilty in trial branded 'sham'

[Budi]

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60832310



Russia's most prominent opposition figure Alexei Navalny, has been found guilty in a fraud trial on charges rejected by supporters as fabricated.

Navalny was jailed when he returned to the country last year, after surviving a poisoning he blames on the Kremlin.
He was initially given three and a half years in a penal colony for breaking bail conditions while in hospital.

Prosecutors now want him to serve another 13 years on accusations of fraud and contempt of court.
They accused him of stealing $4.7m (£3.5m) of donations given to his now banned political organisations.
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No room for dissent in Putin's Russia
(Analysis box by Caroline Davies, transport correspondent)

This verdict will not come as a surprise to those who have watched Alexei Navalny's case.

His anti-corruption foundation was declared extremist, he was poisoned and he was already imprisoned. Now it seems likely his prison term will be extended for more than a decade.

Despite being behind bars, he has called for protests against what Russia calls its special military operation in Ukraine. His supporters now fear that as a result, he might be placed in a maximum security prison as well as receiving an increased sentence.

Russia's crackdown on any platform that contradicts the Kremlin's line continues.

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The trial was held at the penal colony in Pokrov where Navalny was sent last year after being jailed for failing to observe bail conditions, while he was being given life-saving treatment in Berlin for the August 2020 nerve agent attack.

The Kremlin denies any involvement in poisoning Navalny, who has become President Vladimir Putin's fiercest domestic critic.

Navalny's spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said that while the attention of the world was focused on Ukraine, "another monstrous crime was being committed inside of Russia".

She said it was not just his freedom that was at stake but his life as well, because his accusers had already tried to kill him in Siberia. Ms Yarmysh said he faced being transferred to a high-security colony with much stricter conditions than he currently had.

The trial has been dismissed as a sham by Amnesty International and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has condemned it as incompatible with the rule of law.

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[global1]

1. I've Many Times Have Thought That Navalny Would Emerge As ....

Putin's successor.

Any chance of that?

[ck4829]

2. Navalny needs to name someone who can serve as a head of state the US can deal with

It’s time we stop dealing with the Kremlin.

[ancianita]

3. State TV, state courts, state energy don't need consent of governed humans, just obedient workers.

Create reality by information consensus management, and you can convince your humans that a Navalny or a Ukraine is a danger to your nation.

[mopinko]

4. am i the only one thinking this could blow back on pootie?

i hope.

[Budi]

5. I hope it does too. But where they're sending him next will be dreadful & he's already a martyr.

No doubt they'd quietly kill him & say it was natural causes or by his own hand rather than ever let him speak again, because they lie.

Referring to the horrific Gulags:


The world will always know Alexie Navalny as a hero against oppression & It'd be a great ending to his story if he were somehow set free by Amesty's influence or some other miraculous kinder faction.

It will be added to the growing list of human atrocities ordered by Putin himself.

Vladimer Putin grew up to be a hateful useless adult. A madman.

[SunSeeker]

6. K & R for exposure.