At a time when the authorities are preparing a new trial against Navalny, the Russian opponent considers the accusations against him “absurd”, accusations that are added to other processes for which he is being tried or has already been convicted.
“I have been charged with absurd charges, according to which I can face up to 35 years,” Navalny said via video at a pre-trial hearing.
The team of the imprisoned Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, announced last week the start of a new judicial process against his Anti-Corruption Fund, outlawed by the Justice for extremism.
“This means the beginning of the procedure for a new criminal case against him,” Zhdanov explained on his Twitter account.
Another of the opposition officials in exile, Leonid Volkov, explained that the Public Ministry will request 35 years in prison for Navalny, who is already serving an eight-year sentence for various economic crimes.
In October of last year, Navalny had already advanced that the Criminal Investigation Commission accused him of propaganda of terrorism and extremism and of financing extremist activities.
His team already expressed a few days ago the fear that the politician is being poisoned, having already lost eight kilos.
“We do not rule out that even now they are slowly poisoning Navalny. They are killing him little by little so as not to attract so much attention,” said Kira Yarsmish, one of the opposition’s closest collaborators and spokesperson, in a video released. On twitter.
Along the same lines, the opposition’s lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, maintained that, after his client was poisoned three years ago with Novichok (a group of neurotoxic substances developed in the Soviet Union in the 1970s and 1980s), it is necessary to take any decision seriously. deterioration of his health.
“We will demand that they carry out toxicological and radiological tests,” he declared on the digital platform Telegram.
Previously, Kovzev had already accused the Russian prison authorities of having “a clear strategy to destroy Navalny’s health by all means at their disposal.”
In mid-January, Navalny was examined by a doctor, after hundreds of doctors denounced his fragile state of health in an open letter to President Vladimir Putin.
Last Monday, the politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza was sentenced to 25 years in prison, while next week a trial will begin against the only critical opponent of the Kremlin who led the city council of a city of more than a million inhabitants. , Yevgueni Roizman. .
Source: TSF
