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Navalny’s organizations recognized as extremist in Russia

In Russia, the court recognized the organizations of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny as extremist. This was reported by the Russian human rights organization Team 29.

 

The meeting of the Moscow City Court lasted 12.5 hours. The court fully satisfied the claim of Moscow Prosecutor Denis Popov and recognized the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Foundation for the Protection of Citizens’ Rights and Navalny’s Headquarters as extremist organizations.

Team 29, representing FBK in court, has a month to appeal the decision.

Navalny’s organizations are prohibited from disseminating any information, performing financial transactions, participating in elections and organizing actions. Employees of organizations and those who try to continue or resume their activities face up to six years in prison.

The Moscow City Court also liquidated Navalny’s organizations, and transferred their property, which would remain after the creditors’ claims were satisfied, into state ownership.

The head of Team 29, Ivan Pavlov, said that the decision of the Moscow City Court would be appealed right up to the European Court of Human Rights, Russian Interfax news agency reported.

Lawyer Ilya Novikov, a member of the defense team (in Ukraine, he represents the interests of the fifth president, Petro Poroshenko), said that this decision could affect both members of Navalny’s organizations and volunteers and donors, reports The Insider.

“When corruption is the basis of state power, fighters against corruption are extremists,” Navalny said on Facebook. The politician promised that he and his associates will continue to fight: “Now we will understand everything. We will figure it out. We will change. We will evolve. We will adapt. But we will not retreat from our goals and ideas. This is our country and we have no other country.”

 

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