Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny sentenced to 19 more years in prison after being found guilty on extremism charges
Navalny was accused of creating an extremist community, financing extremist activities and a number of other crimes. He was found guilty on Friday at the high-security penal colony in which he has been detained. Navalny is already serving sentences totaling 11-and-a-half years in a maximum security facility on fraud and other charges that he says were trumped up. He and his supporters claim that his arrest and imprisonment were politically motivated, intended to silence his criticism of Putin.
Navalny arrived comatose at a hospital in Berlin, following a medical evacuation flight from the Siberian city of Omsk. A joint investigation by CNN and the group Bellingcat implicated the Russian Security Service in Navalny’s poisoning, piecing together how an elite unit at the agency had followed Navalny’s team throughout a trip to Siberia, when he fell ill.
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