Imprisoned Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny mentioned on Tuesday that Russian authorities have introduced a brand new cost towards him.
In a sequence of posts on Twitter, Navalny mentioned: “It seems that I created an extremist group with the intention to incite hatred in direction of officers and oligarchs,” Navalny’s put up learn. “And after they put me in jail, I dared to be disgruntled about it and referred to as for rallies. For that, they’re supposed so as to add as much as 15 extra years to my sentence,” he mentioned.
Cost comes every week after failed attraction
“Not even eight days have handed since my nine-year high-security sentence got here into drive, and at present the investigator confirmed up once more and formally charged me with a brand new case,” Navalny mentioned on Twitter.
Final week a Russian court docket rejected Navalny’s attraction towards his nine-year jail sentence for fraud, which means a switch from a penal colony to a high-security jail for critical criminals.
Russian authorities haven’t given instant affirmation of the brand new expenses.
Navalny was arrested in January 2021 upon his return from Germany, the place he had been recuperating because the summer time of 2020 after being poisoned by a nerve agent — an incident he blames on the Kremlin.
Russian authorities mentioned the six months of restoration overseas violated the phrases of a 3 1/2-year suspended sentence for the misappropriation of funds.
Putin’s energy should finish ‘as quickly as doable’— Navalny’s spokeswoman
Navalny’s spokesperson Kira Yarmish expressed sturdy views on Putin’s future as president, tweeting: “Putin is not going to launch Alexei so long as he’s in energy. Subsequently, our process is to guarantee that his energy ends as quickly as doable.”
The assorted legal instances introduced towards Navalny have been condemned by rights teams and Western governments, who’ve additionally been crucial of the Kremlin’s clampdown on inside dissent, earlier than and after the invasion of Ukraine.
kb/msh (AP, Reuters)