Melekhovo, Russia:
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was sentenced on Friday to an extra 19 years in jail after being discovered responsible on a sequence of latest costs, Navalny’s supporters stated on social media.
In a video feed from a courtroom listening to at a penal colony east of Moscow, Navalny may very well be seen sporting a black jail uniform and standing along with his arms folded as he listened to the verdicts.
The audio feed from the courtroom was so poor that it was virtually unimaginable to make out what the choose was saying.
Navalny, essentially the most outstanding opponent of President Vladimir Putin, is already serving 11-1/2 years within the penal colony on costs together with fraud that he says had been trumped as much as silence him.
He had predicted on the eve of the decision that he would obtain a “Stalinist” sentence of about 18 extra years.
The battery of latest costs associated to alleged extremist exercise by the 47-year-old politician.
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