navalny has been sentenced to 19 years in prison according to russian state prison. navalny was already in sentence serving 11 years charged with creation of an extremist community. navalny called the charges absurd, and he said that he was preparing to what he called the stalinist verdict. to see the 19 years piled on the 11 already there, and you can see what dissidents are up against there in russia, nic. this is a point of navalny s tweet earlier today before the verdict was handed down, and he said, look, if you can, and essentially, if you are supporter, think about it, and show some support for us, and the political prisoners, and why such a huge sben tense, it is not meant to intimidate me, but you, and this is the point that navalny is taking the case
their brutal occupation here afloat. eventually it will take a toll on their capacities at the front line. not seen it just yet as far as we can tell, but soon that s likely to be much more palpable. boris? nick pacen walsh live in zaporizhzhia. alexei navalny has just been sentenced to 19 years in prison for creating a, quote, extremist community. he was already serving an 11 1/2 year sentence in a maximum security prison. we have nic robertson with us on this story. nic, what does this mean for navalny and the people working the appeal these sentences? it means he s going to be under everyone stricter guard and having an even stricter prison regime around him. the penal colonies he s been into so far have been bad, but they re going to get worse. that s where this sentence will be conservatived out. he s going to a penal colony,
lawyers could be present there. two not guilty pleas, 24 hours. thank you very much. brianna. jailed opposition leader alexei navalny has just been sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison for a, quote, extremist community. he was already serving time in prison, but he just issued a statement saying he s accepted he ll be serving a life sentence and the numbers are merely to intimidate others from standing up to vladimir putin, the length of the sentence that is. biana, do you think, to alexei navalny s point here, this sentence is going to have a chilling effect for putin critics? we re already hearing from some prominent critics. some sitting behind bars. opposition leaders. one has been a close aide and ally of navalny s for years
Navalny, Putin s best-known critic, is serving sentences of 11-1/2 years in a penal colony on fraud and other charges he says were trumped up to silence him. | World News
was back in court tour. he s serving a nine-year prison sentence in russia and is now facing new charges for allegedly creating an extremist community. matthew chance is in russia. matthew, what happened in navalny s hearing? reporter: alexei navalny, the anti-corruption campaigner, first poisoned and nearly killed and then arrested and sentenced to nine years in jail is facing new extremist charges that could see his sentence go for 30 more years. neither journalists, nor his parents, were allowed inside the courtroom. the prosecution detailed nearly 4,000 pages of new allegations against the 47-year-old anti-corruption campaigner, including that he created an