Russia: new conviction for Alexei Navalny

It has been several weeks since Alexei Navalny (photo) was tried behind the walls of his penal colony 100 kilometers east of Moscow.

AP - Alexander Zemlianichenko

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Nine more years in prison for the imprisoned opponent.

A Russian judge recognized, this Tuesday March 22, Alexeï Navalny guilty of "fraud" and "contempt of court".

For this reason, the prosecution had requested barely more last week: that the sentence of two and a half years of detention, which Alexeï Navalny has been serving for a little over a year, be increased to thirteen years of imprisonment.

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With our correspondent in Moscow,

It has been several weeks since Alexei Navalny was tried behind the walls of his penal colony 100 kilometers east of Moscow.

An improvised court, a face still emaciated after his hunger strike last spring and an accused in a convict's outfit.

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Always pugnacious, hands in pockets, the opponent, all these weeks, has shown himself laughing and exchanging with his two lawyers.

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These are his only two supporters now.

There is no one else in the audience.

the hundred or so journalists are relegated to a separate room to watch the trial on video.

In this case, Alexei Navalny is found guilty of having embezzled millions of rubles in donations paid to his anti-corruption organizations but also of "contempt of court" during a previous trial.

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