Navalny case: In a judgment of rare severity, opponent sent to prison for nine years

Kremlin Black Beast, Alexei Navalny was found guilty of scam. He will have to serve his sentence in a camp at a severe diet.

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At the end of a tailor-made trial, Russian justice rendered a verdict of extreme severity and brutality against political opponent Alexei Navalny. Recognized guilty of hiking 2.7 million rubles (23,600 euros at the current price), the opponent of 45 years must serve a nine-year sentence in prison – from which it must be removed from the year that it comes from ‘Perform.

In addition to this conviction for “scam”, Judge Margarita Kotova acknowledged Alexei Navalny guilty of “contempt at court” during one of the many trials that accompanied his return to Russia, in January 2021, Six months after a poisoning that failed to kill him.

Alexei Navalny will not purge these additional eight years in Pokrov IK-2 prison where he is detained and where the court, quite unusually, moved. At the request of the prosecution, it should be transferred to a so-called prison to “severe regime”, much further away from Moscow and where the conditions of detention are harder. The parcels, which constitute for him an opportunity to transmit messages published on social networks, should also be drastically reduced.

Exceptional regime

The opponent lives, wherever it is, under an informal exception regime. A very sewerage survey of the Internet Dojd, closed since, has shown that it was the victim of permanent harassment from its codétenuses, to the toilet or during the night, and this on behalf of the administration penitentiary.

The accusation of the scam that is worth this new conviction was launched in December 2020, when he was about to return to Russia. The investigative committee reproaches the flight of 356 million rubles (2.5 million euros) given by sympathizers to its political structures, before they are declared illegal and closed.

However, justice, for the moment, have been a limited trial to four donor complaints, representing 2.7 million rubles. Even for these modest amounts, the floor did not really demonstrate the reality of the scam. During a brief press conference at the beginning of the trial, February 16, Prosecutor Nadejda Tikhonova had the greatest trouble explaining where the money had passed: “shops, bars, restaurants, hairdressers …” She had launched hesitant. The investigation committee, for its part, had mentioned various “active and real estate”, but without ever giving details.

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