She was sentenced to almost a decade in prison, according to a report by her supporters, for leading the now-banned organization of Alexei Navalny whose jailing is currently taking place in the Siberian city of Tomsk.
A Telegram channel belonging to Ksenia Fadeyeva’s supporters announced that a nine-year sentence had been handed down by ‘judge’ Khudyakov for extremism.
As the defense will appeal to the highest court, we are sure that a decision will be made,” it said.
The independent news website Mediazona reported on Tuesday that an ally of a Kremlin critic had been sentenced on charges of establishing an “extremist organisation.”
In December 2021, a Moscow court outlawed Navalny’s political network on the grounds that it was a “terrorist group” and arrested Ksenia Fadeyeva, Navalny’s former regional coordinator in Tomsk.
Despite the risk of criminal prosecution from her “extremist” status, Fadeyeva remains one of the few Navalny allies in Russia who remains unaffected by the “extremist” label despite her election to Tomsk city council in 2020.
There was a guilty verdict handed down by Tomsk’s Sovetsky Court to Fadeyeva, and she was sentenced to nine years in a co-ed prison.
Fadeyeva had been charged with embezzlement and the state prosecutors had requested a 10.5-year sentence for her.
The charges against her are accompanied by a maximum prison sentence of 12 years, which she denies.
There were no journalists or members of the public present at Fadeyeva’s trial.
There is a risk of criminal prosecution for employees, volunteers and supporters of Navalny’s political network, as the network was designated “extremist” in 2021.
It is a matter of isolating Alexei
After seemingly surviving an attempt to assassinate him by poisoning, Navalny went on to organize large anti-government protests before he was imprisoned in 2021.
As a prisoner, he spent the majority of his time in detention at IK-6, which is located in the Vladimir region, about 250 kilometers (155 miles) southwest of Moscow.
In response to extremism charges brought against him, a court extended his sentence to 19 years.
Furthermore, he was ordered to be moved to a prison that has a harsher special regime and houses prisoners who are particularly dangerous in nature.
The discovery of Navalny at IK-3, one of the strict-regime colonies — “Polar Wolf” — was made after weeks of uncertainty.
Putin is the undisputed favourite to become the president of Russia when the election takes place in March 2024.
The Kremlin’s friends are expected to field candidates for election in the next couple of weeks, however, the real opposition has been sidelined.
A crackdown led by Moscow on independent politicians and activists in Russia has been in place for years, a campaign that intensified after Russian troops were sent into Ukraine in 2022.
Russian repression has targeted Navalny’s movement in particular, but many other movements have been targeted as well.
That news provided by timenews.
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