Russia – Sentencing of opposition figure Aleksei Navalny to 19 years' confinement in a penal colony under a strict regime (04.08.23)
France most emphatically condemns the sentencing today of the Russian political opposition figure and anti-corruption activist Aleksei Navalny to 19 years' confinement in a penal colony under a strict regime for “extremism” and “rehabilitating Nazi ideology”. The verdict, which brings the total duration of his imprisonment to more than 30 years, was handed down in a trial behind closed doors in the Melekhovo penal colony, where Mr. Navalny is already serving a sentence of 11 and a half years' (…)