During the debate in the Sovetsky District Court of Tomsk, the state prosecution demanded 10.5 years in prison for the former head of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny and city Duma deputy Ksenia Fadeeva. This was reported by Fadeeva’s support group.
Ksenia Fadeeva was detained in December 2021. She was accused of organizing an extremist community using her official position (Part 3 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) and of participating in a non-profit organization that infringes on the personality and rights of citizens (Part 3 of Article 239 of the Criminal Code). At first, the oppositionist was prohibited from certain actions, but then she was transferred to a pre-trial detention center. The court decided that she violated one of the prohibitions, which one was not specified.
At first, the case was considered in open mode, but then judge Dmitry Khudyakov, at the request of the prosecutor's office, closed the process. The state prosecution insisted that open hearings could create “a threat to the life and health of participants in the process.”
“For her, the city and the people in it are most important.” What is known about the case of the ex-head of Navalny’s headquarters in Tomsk, Ksenia Fadeeva
The former head of the regional network of Navalny’s headquarters, Leonid Volkov, said that after the arrest of the ex-coordinator of the headquarters in Ufa, Liliya Chanysheva, he suggested that Fadeeva leave, but she remained in Russia: “Ksenia flatly refused: she wrote to me that she was scared, but she is a deputy, she has voters, she has a constituency, she has responsibility — she cannot leave her voters and her work in the Tomsk City Duma, where she was elected in 2020.»
In June 2021, the Moscow City Court recognized Navalny's headquarters as an extremist organization and banned their activities. At the end of September, the Investigative Committee opened a case about an extremist community against Navalny and his associates. Sentences in this case have already been handed down to Liliya Chanysheva in Ufa (7.5 years in prison), Vadim Ostanin in Barnaul (9 years in prison) and Alexei Navalny at an off-site hearing in IK-6 in the Vladimir region. All these processes took place behind closed doors.