Navalny, one of Russian President Vladimir Putin's most vocal critics, was already serving two prison sentences.
United Nations Human Rights Chief Volker Turk called for Navalny's immediate release and slammed the "vague and overly broad charges."
A screen shows the already imprisoned Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny as he listens to his verdict over a series of extremism charges at the IK-6 penal colony, a maximum-security prison some 250 kilometres east of Moscow, in the settlement of Melekhovo in the Vladimir region on August 4, 2023.Kremlin opposition leader Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 19 more years in prison after being found guilty in a Russian court on a series of charges, his team confirmed on Friday.
Navalny faced charges of inciting and financing "extremist activity" and "rehabilitating Nazi ideology," charges he and his supporters reject. In a social media post on Thursday, Navalny said that he expected to receive a "Stalinist" prison term. He has also condemned Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, calling it "the most stupid and senseless war of the 21st century."
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