Russian court has found Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny guilty of The court said large-scale fraud on Tuesday.
Russian prosecutors seek to move Navalny to maximumSecurity penal colony for 13 years on shipment of Fraud and contempt of Tennis Court.
Navalny committed fraud – theft of property By group organization, said Judge Margarita Kotova, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) correspondent present at the trial held in Navalny Penal Colony outside Moscow.
The Kremlin critic is already serves two and -half-year wholesale in prison east camp of Moscow for Parole offenses related to the charges brought against him says was fabricated up to thwart his political ambitions.
for him national The opposition movement has been described as “extreme” and shut downbut he continued issue Messages on social media From prison through his law team And his aides, recently urged the Russians to oppose the war in Ukraine.
Navalny’s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmesh, said: last this week prosecutors Transfer request to maximum-Safety jail Because they said he committed crimes in The prison camp.
“Maybe it will be further from Moscow, and so will the lawyers difficulty Enter this colony and we will not have access to Alexei” on Monday. “This is not a question of freedom question of His life… they are the same people that tried kill for him already…that’s what we’re afraid of, she said.
Navalny has been imprisoned last year When he returned to Russia after receiving medical treatment in Germany after a poison attack with A Soviet-era neurotoxin during a visit to Siberia in 2020. Navalny blamed Putin for The attack, a charge the Kremlin denies.
Yarmysh said Navalny expects Lefortovo to stand trial in Moscow to deliver down The full 13-year The sentence requested by the prosecution – but that’s Navalny work will continue.
“I’m totally sure That Alexei wonr in prison for (extra) 13 years old. Putin himself won’t last You confirmed it so long, we are now know how To communicate with Alexi and how He can supervise our activity from prison,” she added.
after last he heard on On March 15, Navalny struck a typical defiant tone, saying on Instagram: “If a file prison term Do price of My human right to say things need To be told… then they can ask for 113 years old. I will not relinquish my words or my actions.”
many of Navalny’s most prominent allies left Russia instead of face restrictions or jail at home.
throws herself on a wanted listAnd the left Russia last year After the court restricted her freedom of a movement for 18 months, for alleged irregularities of COVID-19 safety rules.
