Kremlin critic Navalny sentenced to additional 9 years in jail

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link during the verdict in his embezzlement and contempt of court trial at the IK-2 prison colony in the town of Pokrov in Vladimir Region on March 22, 2022. (AFP)
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link during the verdict in his embezzlement and contempt of court trial at the IK-2 prison colony in the town of Pokrov in Vladimir Region on March 22, 2022. (AFP)

POKROV — A Russian court sentences jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to nine years in prison after he was found guilty of embezzlement and contempt of court.

Navalny, 45, will serve a “sentence of nine years in a strict-regime penal colony,” judge Margarita Kotova says at the trial held inside Navalny’s penal colony outside Moscow.

It is no immediately clear whether the nine years will be concurrent with the two-and-a-half-year sentence he is already serving.

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