2023-04-26 13:51:00
Navalny has 10 days to familiarize himself with the documents in the extremism case against him, the judge rules
A judge has ruled that jailed Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny has 10 days to “familiarize himself” with the documents in the extremism case against him, his spokesman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter.
The sentence was handed down in a closed-door hearing at the Basmanny Russian District Court in Moscow.
The Russian state news agency TASS said there were 196 volumes of documents related to this case. According to TASS, the court will reconsider the issue after May 5.
Navalny’s daughter, Daria Navalnaya, told CNN’s Jim Sciutto on Tuesday that in “each volume there are 250 double-spaced pages.”
“Terrorism case”: Navalny said he had been told he was facing a new “terrorism case,” in comments posted on one of his official Twitter accounts on Wednesday.
He said the “terrorist case”, alleged to have occurred while he was in prison, was separate from the extremism case against him.
Navalny said he had been told the case would be tried “by a military court.”
Key background: Navalny is Russia’s best-known opposition politician. He survived an attempt on his life after being poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent in 2020.
Last March, Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison in a maximum-security prison, according to Russian state media outlet Tass, after being convicted on fraud charges over allegations that he had stolen from his Anti-Corruption Foundation.
At the time, he was already serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence in a detention center east of the Russian capital, after being arrested in February 2021 for violating probation, a verdict he said was politically motivated.
In June 2022, he was transferred to a maximum security prison in Melekhovo, in the Vladimir region, TASS reports, citing Sergey Yazhan, chairman of the regional public oversight commission.
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