The fate of Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian opposition leader whose story was told in the Oscar-winning documentary Navalny, has become even more grim.
A court in Russia sentenced Navalny today to another 19 years in prison on charges of “extremism,” according to reports in Russian state media.
That sentence will be tacked onto a nine-year term he is already serving after his conviction on a variety of charges seen as bogus and politically motivated by critics of the Kremlin.
Navalny ran afoul of Vladimir Putin by accusing the Russian president and his cronies of corruption and incompetence. Navalny, who has been serving his sentence in a penal colony 150 miles east of Moscow, had anticipated a harsh judgment.
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