A Russian court on Monday opened a new trial of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that could keep him behind bars for decades.
The trial is taking place at a maximum security prison in Melekhovo, 250 kilometres east of Moscow, where Navalny -- the Kremlin's archfoe -- is serving a nine-year sentence for fraud and contempt of court.Navalny, 47, who exposed official corruption and organized major anti-Kremlin protests, was arrested in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.
The new trial comes as Russian authorities are conducting a sweeping crackdown on dissent amid the fighting in Ukraine, which Navalny has harshly criticized. Navalny, clad in his prison garb, looked gaunt but spoke emphatically and gestured energetically as the trial got underway.His allies said the charges retroactively criminalize all the activities of Navalny's foundation since its creation in 2011.
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