A Russian court has ordered that the trial for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny be held behind closed doors
A RUSSIAN COURT has ordered that the trial for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny be held behind closed doors as he faces extremism charges that could see his time in prison extended for decades.
Navalny, 47, once mobilised massive anti-Kremlin protests but is now serving a nine-year prison sentence on embezzlement charges that his supporters see as punishment for his political work. “Although it’s clear from the size of the tomes that I am a sophisticated and persistent criminal, it’s impossible to find out what exactly I am accused of,” Navalny quipped.
In a post online, Navalny’s team said it was planning a “long, stubborn and exhaustive but fundamentally important campaign where we will turn people against the war”.“Against the dead-end that Putin crazily and dumbly put us in on 24 February 2022,” it said, referring to the day Putin deployed troops to Ukraine.Punishment for ‘political work’ Russia has introduced strict laws banning criticism of its army’s actions in Ukraine.
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