a Navalny ally gets 7.5 years sentence
A Russian court on Wednesday sentenced a former regional coordinator of jailed Russian opposition activist Alexei Navalny to seven-and-a-half years in prison on charges of creating an extremist group. On Wednesday, Ufa’s Kirov District Court found Chanysheva guilty and handed her a 7.5-year prison sentence, according to the regional news outlet Aspekty./“My political rights and the rights of my fellow citizens have been consistently violated. This shows that Putin has long wanted to eradicate any dissent […] for the sole purpose of retaining power in 2024,” she said. /Chanysheva was the first of Navalny’s associates to be arrested on “extremism” charges in November 2021. Most of his other key aides have fled Russia and now live in exile.
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2023/06/14/navalny-ally-chanysheva-jailed-75-years-for-extremism-a81500
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