Russian Prosecutor Demands 11-Year Prison Sentence for Former Head of Navalny’s Staff

The prosecutor’s office had demanded that the 46-year-old former head of Navalny’s staff in Barnaul be sentenced to 11 years in prison.

Ostanin was detained in November 2021, a few months after the Russian authorities declared the Anti-Corruption Foundation founded by Navalny and his network of regional headquarters as “extremist organizations”.

Vadim Ostanin, who had run Navalny’s local headquarters in the Siberian city of Barnaul, had carried out only “legal political work,” Navalny’s team said.https://t.co/US7OvhofGZ

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On June 14, the former head of Navalny’s staff in Ufa Lilia Chanisheva was sentenced to seven and a half years in prison, who had been charged with similar charges.

Navalny himself is also currently on trial on charges of “extremism”.

As reported, on Thursday, the prosecutor’s office demanded a 20-year prison sentence for him. The verdict in this case is expected to be announced on August 4.

Navalny was detained in January 2021, returning from Germany, where he received treatment after a poisoning attempt organized by agents of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB).

In February of the same year, Navalny was sentenced to two and a half years in prison for allegedly violating the terms of the suspended prison sentence he was sentenced to in 2014, while receiving treatment in Germany.

In March of the following year, he was sentenced to another nine years in prison for “fraud” and “contempt of court”.

Navalny is now accused of creating an “extremist community”, calling for “extremism”, creating a non-commercial organization that has threatened civil rights, financing extremism, involving minors in particularly dangerous activities, as well as rehabilitating Nazism.

2023-07-24 15:59:00
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