Moscow has opened a new criminal case against Russia’s top opposition politician Alexei Navalny, who is already serving a nine-year prison sentence, his spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
“A new criminal case was opened against Alexei Navalny while he’s in prison as a result of a ‘provocation’,” Kira Yarmysh said in English on Twitter.
Yarmysh said it was the tenth case against the Kremlin critic, who was already facing up to 35 years in prison.
His supporters see the charges as a punishment for challenging President Vladimir Putin.
In the latest case, Navalny is accused of “disorganisation of the activity of penitentiary institutions” which could see him face five more years in prison.
Yarmysh said the administration staged a “provocation”…
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