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Alexei Navalny: New criminal prosecution of jailed Kremlin critic

Its Commission of Inquiry Russia has launched a new criminal case against a jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny and its allies, according to a statement issued by the committee on Tuesday (28/9).

This body filed a new criminal prosecution on the accusation that Navalny himself and his associates recommended and guided a “extremist group».

It is recalled that a Russian court has already outlawed it InstitutionAnti-Corruption (FBK) of Navalny recognizing him as “extremist”, while he is in prison for violations of a suspended sentence.

The same are prosecuted collaborators of Leonid Volkov and Ivan Zhdanov. He was also prosecuted on charges of participating in an extremist group, against partners of, Lyubov Sombol, Georgi Alburov, Ruslan Saventinov. Vitsislav Gimas, Pavel Zelensky and Rustem Mulyukov, Reuters reports.

The announcement of the Commission of Inquiry states that Navalny established the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) with the aim of “developing extremist activity aimed at changing the constitutional foundations of the system “,” the undermining of social security and the state entity “, of the Russian Federation.

“In order to expand criminal activity in 2017, the movement was created”Offices of Navalny”To promote the action of the extremist group in 37 areas of Russia “is mentioned in the same announcement.

Also, according to the Commission of Inquiry, “in order to propagate their criminal activity” they created on the internet his website FBK, Navalny’s office websites, their own YouTube channel, and they also used social media Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and more.

Also, the action of the extremist group, according to the announcement of the Investigative Committee, aimed at “defamation of the organs of powerAnd for this reason they organized rallies from January to April of this year.

Nominated for the EU Human Rights Prize

Alexei Navalny was nominated yesterday – in the opposite of the above – for European Parliament annual award for human rights, as European Union lawmakers try to keep the spotlight on its pro-democracy network, which has been outlawed in Russia.

Navalny, 45, who was poisoned in August 2020 with a neuroparalytic agent, according to Western countries, is serving a 2-1 / 2 year prison sentence for violating the suspension terms, which he describes as fabricated.

The EU has imposed sanctions to Russian officials, blaming the Kremlin critic for the poisoning and imprisonment.

Moscow, again, denies that he has committed an offense and accuses the Union of interfering in its internal affairs.

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