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Navalny, 47, President Vladimir Putin s fiercest domestic critic, is already serving sentences totalling 11-1/2 years on fraud and other charges | World News
let s stop the length of that sentence, the prosecutors had been pushing for 20 years, we think it is 19 but there has been a little bit of doubt about that. let s start with the length of that sentence. yes, the trial was held at a makeshift courtroom at a prison about 850 mild east of moscow in a village cold melekhovo where alexei navalny is serving a previous nine year sentence. the trial on extremism charges was held behind closed doors and journalists who arrived at that detention facility were able to follow proceedings when the judge were able to follow proceedings when thejudge read out the were able to follow proceedings when the judge read out the verdict from a different room via a video link, but the sound quality was so poor that they had difficulty understanding what the actual sentence was. but now the consensus
our russia editor, steve rosenberg reports. this is the closest we were allowed to get to russia s most famous prisoner. we d been let inside the high securityjail where alexei navalny is already incarcerated. but journalists weren t allowed into the makeshift courtroom. we had to watch on a screen. for the kremlin critic, this is a trial behind bars. he was found guilty on extremism charges. punishment more jail time. he was handed a 19 year prison sentence. we may have been allowed in here to watch the verdict on a tv screen, but keep in mind that in this court case, the actual proceedings were closed to the press and to the public and held in a high security prison. describing this trial as behind closed doors feels like an understatement. ahead of the verdict, in a message online, mr navalny wrote that a long prison sentence for him was
for the kremlin critic, this is a trial behind bars. he was found guilty on extremism charges. punishment more jail time. he was handed a 19 year prison sentence. we may have been allowed in here to watch the verdict on a tv screen, but keep in mind that in this court case, the actual proceedings were closed to the press and to the public and held in a high security prison. describing this trial as behind closed doors feels like an understatement. ahead of the verdict, in a message online, mr navalny wrote that a long prison sentence for him was designed to scare russians. he revealed he d soon be on trial again for terrorism. they chant. a charismatic protest leader and anti corruption crusader, alexei navalny fell foul of the kremlin long ago. in 2020 in siberia, he was poisoned with a nerve agent and airlifted to germany.