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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How are the treatment of two any different it’s a little hypocritical of someone when you are doing the exact same thing.
srmanuel, more evidence that we are interacting with a 'bot. No where in your posts do I see you saying we are 'not permitted to comment about Navalny'. I do, however, see you rightfully commenting on the hypocrisy, when we are travelling down the same paths.
'Bots are unable to make such distinctions.
Why are you arguing with a ‘bot? That’s just silly. I’m going off to do something productive, instead.
How about criticizing both? Saying our US system has faults is a reason we can't criticize despots in Russia or China is moronic.
See srmanuel? Once again this tlozo 'bot states incorrectly that I am saying we CAN'T criticize Russia. It cannot tell the difference between pointing out hypocrisy and demanding a cessation of discussion.
I’m sitting here waiting for the NFL game to come on at 9:30am Eastern, I had nothing better to do than battle a couple of bots.
Give it time.
Or, more likely, the globalists will use slightly more subtle means to the same end.
Perhaps you’re right, I was bored this morning and wanted to battle a bot for a few minutes.
Sometimes you can break them.
Fair enough. :^)
No, no, we are still hypocrites, because our system has faults. Idiocy
....and take away your only joy???!?
NEVER! I would never do that to you!
While Russia jails a political opponent, one finds:
Ukraine suspends 11 political parties with links to Russia Guardian UK, 20 March 2022So many more instances of governments acting against citizens, that "let's find the one in the white hat" is a fool's game.Zelensky nationalizes TV news and restricts opposition parties The Week, via Yahoo, 20 March 2022
And here....
"Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, former leader of the right-wing extremist group Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in prison...."
These Jan. 6 rioters received the longest sentences so far Axios, 5 September 2023
"Some 378 individuals have been sentenced to periods of incarceration over their involvement in the January 6, 2021, uprising at the U.S. Capitol in the 32 months since the attempted overthrow of the 2020 election certification took place, the District of Columbia's attorney's office said on Wednesday."
Full List of Capitol Rioters Jailed So Far and the Sentences They Are Serving
And then....
Turkey, a NATO member, one observes....
Turkish court sentences Erdogan rival to jail with political ban
" Americans criticizing Russia for unfair elections and a weaponized judicial system is the height of hypocrisy.
Putin also assassinates anybody who doesn’t fully agree with him
like Litvinenko and the radioactive Polonium
Western countries don’t do that, Russian apologist
Ashley Babbit would beg to differ but she’s dead, she’s probably sitting in heaven talking about this with JFK, RFK and Martin Luthur King who all got killed for their political beliefs and actions.
Looks pretty much the same to me.
JFK took a bullet to the head over his political actions and beliefs and the government covered it up.
Martin Luthur King got a little to uppity for the establishment and he took a bullet to the head as well.
You could go all the way back to Abraham Lincoln who took a bullet to the back of his head for his actions as POTUS.
Political assassination is all too familiar to many Americans.
We could always go with George Wallace, the Democratic Party couldn’t allow a racist segregationist from Alabama to be the nominee, so someone put a bullet into him, especially after he won the Democratic Primary in Michigan.
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