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<blockquote data-quote="WPLG" data-source="post: 30971" data-attributes="member: 158">A Russian court on Tuesday rejected opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s appeal of a nine-year prison sentence for fraud.The rejection means Navalny will be sent to a high-security prison, according to the independent news site Mediazona.Navalny, the Kremlin’s most persistent critic who had built a nationwide network of supporters, was arrested in January 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he had been recuperating from nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin.Authorities said the six months of recovery abroad violated terms of a 3½-year suspended sentence in a fraud case.In March, he was sentenced to nine years in a separate case alleging that he defrauded supporters by seeking donations to run for president even though he knew the previous conviction disqualified him from being a candidate.<a href="https://www.local10.com/news/world/2022/05/24/russian-opposition-leaders-9-year-sentence-appeal-rejected/" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="WPLG, post: 30971, member: 158"] A Russian court on Tuesday rejected opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s appeal of a nine-year prison sentence for fraud. The rejection means Navalny will be sent to a high-security prison, according to the independent news site Mediazona. Navalny, the Kremlin’s most persistent critic who had built a nationwide network of supporters, was arrested in January 2021 upon returning from Germany, where he had been recuperating from nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Authorities said the six months of recovery abroad violated terms of a 3½-year suspended sentence in a fraud case. In March, he was sentenced to nine years in a separate case alleging that he defrauded supporters by seeking donations to run for president even though he knew the previous conviction disqualified him from being a candidate. [url="https://www.local10.com/news/world/2022/05/24/russian-opposition-leaders-9-year-sentence-appeal-rejected/"]Continue reading...[/url] [/QUOTE]

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