The Moscow City Court at an off-site meeting in IK-6 in the Vladimir Region sentenced Alexei Navalny to 19 years in a special regime colony in an «extremist case,» the politician's lawyers confirmed to journalist Vasily Polonsky. The former technical director of the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel, Daniel Kholodny, was sentenced to eight years in a penal colony.
FBK employee Olga Guseva specified, citing lawyers, that the oppositionist was also fined 500,000 rubles.
At the end of July, the prosecutor's office requested a policy of 20 years in a special regime colony for Navalny and 10 years in a general regime colony for Kholodny. According to the case file, Navalny was accused of calls for extremism, creation of an NPO that infringes on the rights of citizens , financing of extremism, creating an extremist community, involving minors in dangerous acts and rehabilitation of Nazism.
Kholodny was charged with participationin extremist activity and its funding. The reason for the case was his work on the YouTube channel, including the collection of donations.
FBK director Ivan Zhdanov said that accusations against Navalny under articles on the creation of an NPO that infringes on the rights of citizens and an extremist community are connected with the work of the fund and headquarters, and the security forces saw “financing extremism” in the collection of donations for the work of organizations created by the politician. The prosecution of Navalny under the article on «involving minors in dangerous actions» is connected with the participation of several people under the age of 18 in the actions announced by the oppositionist.
According to Zhdanov, the accusation of incitement to extremism was based on the statements of other people — former FBK cameraman Pavel Zelensky and one of the participants in the rally as part of Navalny's presidential campaign. Both of them were found guilty under this article, the investigation then decided that they «acted under the leadership of Navalny.»
As the supporters of the oppositionist noted, the case for the rehabilitation of Nazism was opened because of a collage with a green-covered monument «Motherland calling!”. It was made by the Volgograd headquarters after in 2017 they splashed green paint on the politician. In addition, Navalny published several sheets with other evidence of the prosecution. Among them is the text of Morgenstern's track «Navalny Lekha», as well as information about crypto transfers to the oppositionist from a wallet called PutinHui. =»mz-publish-context-cite__image» alt=»1″ /> The «extremist» case of Navalny. Sentence
Updated at 20:01. Added information about a fine of 500 thousand rubles.