BREAKING A Russian court convicted Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny of extremism charges and sentenced him to 19 years in prison, his third and longest prison term. Navalny is already serving a nine-year term on charges he says were politically motivated.
A Russian judge delivered the guilty verdict and sentencing in the closed-door trial against Alexey Navalny at a courtroom inside the maximum-security prison camp in Melekhovo, about 145 miles east of Moscow, where the Russian opposition leader is already serving 11 1/2 years. Russian prosecutors had requested a 20-year prison sentence for the latest charges, which stem from Navalny's pro-democracy campaigns against Putin's regime.
It's Navalny's fifth criminal conviction. All of the charges have been widely viewed as a politically motivated strategy by the Kremlin to silence its fiercest critic. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny stands in a cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia on Feb. 20, 2021.The 47-year-old lawyer-turned-politician has been in jail since 2021, upon returning to Russia after recovering in Germany from
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