The Russian prosecutor's office called on Tuesday for 13 years in prison against opponent Alexei Nalvani, a sworn enemy of the Kremlin and victim of the repression of criticism of President Vladimir Putin.
Since 16 February, Alexei Navalni, 45, has been tried in the compound of the prison colony where he is, 100 km east of Moscow, on charges of “fraud” and “offenses to the court”.
It is in this makeshift court that prosecutor Nadejda Tijonova asked for another severe sentence against the opponent who, in 2020, survived a poisoning for which the Kremlin is responsible.
“I call for a sentence of deprivation of liberty for 13 years,” said the prosecutor quoted by Russian news agencies.
The investigators accuse him of having diverted millions of rubles from donations given to his anti-corruption organizations.
Since February 2021, Alexei Navalni has been serving two and a half years in prison for another case of “fraud” dating back to 2014.
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One of the opposition's exiled allies, Leonid Volkov, immediately reacted by stating that the prosecutor's request shows that Navalni will remain in prison “until he dies, or until Vladimir Putin dies.”
“It is an absolutely innocent man who is on trial, because he tells the truth about Putin's criminal regime,” Liubov Sobol, another ally in exile of Navalni, said on Twitter.
In 2020, the opponent spent several months in convalescence in Germany after surviving a nerve agent poisoning, for which Vladimir Putin is responsible.
Upon his return to Russia, the opponent was arrested in January 2021 and tried and convicted of a “fraud” case dating back to 2014. This condemnation generated a wave of criticism and sanctions by Western countries against Moscow.
The opponent was included in an official list of “terrorists and extremists”, as part of a campaign of repression against dissenting voices that also affected his main collaborators, who are in exile
This also generated strong pressure from the Russian authorities against various opposition media as well as on power-critical NGOs
On the other hand, Alexei Navalni has also spoken out against the Russian army's offensive in Ukraine and called on his allies and his supporters to demonstrate for peace, despite the risks of arrest and serious legal action.
Nearly 15,000 peace demonstrators have been arrested during mobilizations in several cities around the country, according to specialized NGO OVD-Info.
Since the start of the offensive in Ukraine, Russian power has voted on two laws that provide severe prison sentences for those who denounce the conflict.
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