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Russia sentences Navalny supporters to 3-1/2 years in prison

today14 March 2024

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Russia outlawed Alexei Navalny’s organisations as ‘extremist’ in 2021 and has handed down prison sentences to several of his aides and supporters. (AFP pic)

MOSCOW: A Moscow court has sentenced two university students to more than three years in prison for their involvement with the late opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Russia in 2021 outlawed Navalny’s organisations as “extremist” and has handed down lengthy prison sentences to several of the Kremlin critic’s aides and supporters.

Moscow’s Khoroshevsky District Court sentenced Ivan Trofimov, 23, and Alina Olekhnovich, 22, to three-and-a-half years in a penal colony on charges of participating in an “extremist” organisation, state media and rights groups reported today, citing the court’s press service.

The pair were sentenced yesterday, according to a database on the court’s website.

Navalny died in an Arctic prison colony last month, where he was serving a 19-year sentence widely seen as political…

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Written by: AFP


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