She asserted that his confession had been obtained through torture and that his confession had been obtained through torture.
In a Facebook post by his team shortly after the sentence, the normally sardonic Navalny said: “My space flight is taking a little longer than expected.”
He added that neither he nor his comrades were “simply waiting,” announcing that his anti-corruption foundation would become an international organization that “fights (Putin) until we win.”
“We will find all their villas in Monaco, their villas in Miami, their wealth everywhere – and if we do, we will take everything from the criminal Russian elite,” the foundation’s new website said.
Navalny’s spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said last week that prosecutors had requested a transfer to a maximum-security prison because they said he had committed crimes in the prison camp.
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“Probably it will be further from Moscow and lawyers will have difficulty entering this colony and we will not have access to Alexei,” she said before sentencing.
“It’s not a question of his freedom, it’s a question of his life … They are the same people who have already tried to kill him … This is what we fear.”
Navalny was detained last year when he returned to Russia after receiving medical treatment in Germany following a poison attack with a Soviet-era nerve toxin during a visit to Siberia in 2020. Navalny blamed Putin for the attack , an accusation denied by the Kremlin.
Germany condemns the ruling, calling its foreign ministry “part of a systematic instrumentalisation of Russia’s judicial system against dissidents and political opposition.”
It was not immediately clear whether Navalny should serve the new nine-year sentence in addition to 2 years, or where he should serve it. The prosecutor originally asked for 13 years in prison. The judge also imposed a fine of 1.2 million rubles (about 11,500 dollars).
Yarmysh said Navalny expected the Lefortovo court in Moscow to serve the entire 13-year sentence demanded by the prosecutor – but that Navalny would continue his work.
“I’m pretty sure Alexei is not in jail for that [an extra] 13 years. “Putin himself will not last long,” she said.
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“And we now know how to communicate with Alexei and how he can monitor our activity out of prison.”
After the last interrogation on March 15, Navalny struck a typical still tone and said on Instagram: “If imprisonment is the price of my human right to say things that need to be said … then they can ask 113 years. I will not renounce my words or deeds. “
Many of Navalny’s most prominent allies left Russia instead of being placed under restrictions or imprisonment.
Yarmysh himself is on a wanted list, and left Russia last year after a court restricted her freedom of movement for 18 months, alleging violations of COVID-19 security rules.
Reuters
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