MELEKHOVO (Vladimir region), August 4 The Moscow City Court sentenced Alexei Navalny to 19 years colony in the case of extremism, the correspondent said.
«To assign Navalny a sentence of 19 years in prison to be served in a special regime colony,» the judge announced the decision.
The Moscow City Court considered the new case at an off-site meeting in colony No. br />
Navalny was found guilty of creating an extremist community, financing extremist activities and other crimes. The prosecutor demanded that he be sentenced to 20 years in a special regime colony.
Another defendant in the case is Daniel Kholodny, former technical director of one of Navalny's YouTube channels. He is accused of financing extremist activities and participating in an extremist community. For him, the prosecutor requested ten years in a penal colony.
According to the judge, Kholodny was sentenced to «eight years … in a penal colony.»
Navalny was imprisoned after he was replaced with a real prison sentence in February 2021 in the case of embezzlement of Yves Rocher funds due to violations of the probation regime.
In March last year, the Lefortovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced him, together with the previous case, to nine years in a strict regime colony for fraud and contempt of court. The second episode of the case concerned insulting Judge Vera Akimova, who passed a sentence for slandering World War II veteran Ignat Artemenko — as a result of the trial, Navalny was fined 850 thousand rubles.
transferred from IK-2 to penal colony No. 6 of strict regime.