Sep 27, 2023 at 10:00 PM Update: an hour ago
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny says he will be transferred to the “toughest possible prison”. On Tuesday, the Kremlin critic was told that his appeal had been rejected. He must serve a prison sentence of nineteen years.
Navalny says he will be transferred to a so-called EPKT, an isolation cell, for at least twelve months. The Russian opposition leader states that he has to go there because, according to the court, he is “incorrigible”, writes The Guardian.
The well-known Kremlin critic has been repeatedly convicted in cases he calls politically motivated. The sentence of nineteen years in prison was on top of a previous prison sentence of more than eleven years. Because there was no fair trial, the prison sentence was already determined in advance.
He was convicted of founding what Russian authorities consider to be an extremist organization that would undermine public safety.
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Navalny was poisoned in 2020
Navalny has been the most successful opposition figure in Russian politics in recent years, organizing major protests against the government of President Vladimir Putin.
In 2020, Navalny was poisoned. After treatment in Germany, he returned to Russia in early 2021 and was immediately arrested. Research collective Bellingcat managed to trace the poisoning of the opposition leader to the Russian security service FSB.
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