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MOSCOW, September 11 On September 26, the First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction will consider an appeal against the sentence of Alexei Navalny, who received 19 years in prison in a case of extremism, the press reported. court service.
“The hearing of the appeal is scheduled for September 26 at 14.00,” the court said, noting that Navalny will participate in the hearing via video link from the colony.
Earlier, the Moscow City Court considered Navalny’s new case at an off-site hearing in colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region behind closed doors for the safety of the participants in the process. Navalny was found guilty of creating an extremist community, financing extremist activities and a number of 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, the former technical director of one of Navalny’s YouTube channels, who is charged with financing extremist activities and participating in an extremist community. He received 8 children in prison.
Navalny ended up in prison after his suspended sentence in the case of embezzlement from Yves Rocher was replaced in February 2021 with real imprisonment due to violations of the suspended sentence regime. In March last year, the Lefortovo Court of Moscow sentenced Navalny, together with the previous case, to nine years in a maximum security colony for fraud and contempt of court. The second episode of the case concerned the insult of judge Vera Akimova, who passed a sentence for slandering the Great Patriotic War veteran Ignat Artemenko — as a result of the trial, Navalny received a fine of 850 thousand rubles.
In May 2022, the Moscow City Court recognized the decision of the district court as legal, and in June Navalny was transferred from IK-2 to maximum security correctional colony No. 6, also located in the Vladimir region.
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