A Russian court has jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny for a further 19 years on charges of “extremism”.
He will serve the term in a “special regime” colony for men serving life sentences and “particularly dangerous recidivists”, Moscow City Court ruled. Such detention centres have the strictest conditions in the Russian penal system and are located in remote corners of the country.
Prosecutors had asked for a 20-year prison sentence on half a dozen charges, including creating an “extremist community” — Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation and his nationwide network of political activists — and bringing back Nazism.
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