Ksenia Fadeyeva, an ally to the imprisoned Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny, was sentenced to 9 years in jail for alleged extremist actions by a Siberian court docket on Friday.
Fadeyeva is the previous head of Navalny’s native headquarters within the metropolis of Tomsk, the place she additionally served as metropolis council member. On Friday, she was sentenced to 9 years in jail and fined about €5,000. The court docket charged her with alleged actions in an extremist organisation whereas holding her official place, in line with Mediazona.
“What occurred on this trial has nothing to do with justice. We’ve truly been bullied for the final week. The protection was restricted within the stage of presenting proof,” Fadeyeva’s lawyer mentioned after the trial on Friday, in line with Mediazona.
The state prosecution — which demanded a ten.5 yr jail time period for Fadeyeva — was allowed to current “months of proof over greater than 25 court docket hearings,” however Fadeyeva’s protection staff solely had “4 days to current proof,” her lawyer mentioned.
Fadeyeva was detained in December 2021, after a Moscow court docket declared Navalny’s political group, the Anti-Corruption Basis an “extremist” political community and banned all of their actions in June 2021. In January 2022 Fadeyeva was placed on Russia’s checklist of terrorists.
“Ksenia didn’t commit any crime, she is a courageous politician who has been preventing in opposition to Putin’s corrupt regime. She needs to be free,” Navalny’s Anti Corruption Basis mentioned final week.
The sentence comes after Navalny launched his election marketing campaign to vote for anybody however incumbent President Vladimir Putin in March’s election. Shortly after the launch, Navalny disappeared for 3 weeks whereas being relocated to a different jail colony above the Arctic Circle.
In August, Navalny was sentenced to a further 19 years in a maximum-security jail.
