Posted on 11/12/2023 4:59:12 AM PST by Timber Rattler
A Moscow appeals court has upheld a 19-year prison sentence for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was convicted on extremism-related charges in August.
Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is already serving a 9-year sentence on fraud and embezzlement charges.
In August, the court said Navalny had financed and incited "extremist activities" with his group the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The group was banned by Russian authorities in 2021 and labeled as extremist.
Navalny has rejected the charges as politically motivated by the Kremlin in an attempt to silence him.
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The appeal was held in a closed hearing, as Russia's Interior Ministry had said Navalny's supporters could stage "provocations," Russian state news agency Tass reported. Navalny appeared via video link from a maximum security penal colony in the town of Melekhovo, about 150 miles east of Moscow, where he is being held. He will now be transferred to a different maximum security facility, Tass said.
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Have you bothered to check on the 1/6 protestors that are still in jail or members of the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers that have been sent to Federal Prison for years. Not to mention of the multiple prosecutions of Trump.
To me, this type of treatment of Americans is no different than what’s happening in Russia.
Until we clean up our own mess, belittling of Russia’s legal system seems a bit hypocritical.
Putin making the voting choices easier by getting rid of any opposition candidates
this is how dictators stay in power
You mean like they are trying to get rid of Trump as a political opponent, civil cases to bankrupt him and criminal cases to send him to jail.
The Ukraine is collapsing, Zelensky is looking for credit and Biden owns another foreign policy disaster.
Putin must feel really threatened by this guy, if he gives him a 19-year prison term
Navalny must be everything Putin isn’t ... smart, likes people, isn’t paranoid, isn’t a warmonger, wants to get along with his neighbors
he’d beat that stupid monster Putin in any fair vote
Same thing your boy Castro Trudough is doing in Canada and Old Poopy Pants is doing in the US.
what a dumb comment
we still have free elections, unlike Russia
Until we clean up our own mess, belittling of Russia’s legal system seems a bit hypocritical.
Right, so we have to be perfect before we criticize foreign despots? Okay
Navalny is the west’s boy from Yale. Just a Schwab minion.
spoken like a true Putin propagandist!
That's a good Sunday morning joke post frenchie!
No you don’t fool. And neither do the people in Ukraine.
Your boy is throwing people who oppose his rule in the slammer for years without a trial. And he allows lovefests for nazis in his Parliament.
Same thing happening right here in the US.
You are absolutely correct. Americans criticizing Russia for unfair elections and a weaponized judicial system is the height of hypocrisy.
“Have you bothered to check on the 1/6 protestors that are still in jail or members of the Proud Boys or Oath Keepers that have been sent to Federal Prison for years.”
I don’t believe he’s posted a SINGLE ARTICLE on these subjects. He seems only to be assigned to Putin.
You're funny! Where can I see you perform? Yuk Yuks? The Comedy Club?
Right, because we are just like Russia, ruled by a despot since 1999. Okay
Personally, I could care less what’s happening in Russia, it’s for the Russian people to decide, one of the reasons we are in the mess we are is because we keep meddling in the affairs of other countries, when our own house is a mess.
I care about Americans getting mistreated by our own Government.
If we do want to have influence in other countries, it would help if we weren’t doing the same things, we are criticizing other countries for doing.
Right, who cares about a country that has thousands of nuclear missiles aimed at us. Okay
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