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NEWS… BUT NOT AS YOU KNOW IT
Russia’s leading opposition figure has been sentenced to an additional 19 years’ jail on ‘extremism’ charges.
Alexei Navalny was already serving a nine-year sentence for fraud and contempt of court – charges which are widely seen as politically motivated.
He will now be moved from his high-security jail, where he has reportedly been subjected to abuse by guards and long stints in solitary, to a ‘special regime colony’.
It’s not known which colony he will be sent to, but facilities of this kind are known to have the harshest conditions in Russia’s correctional system.