Posted 12/29/2023, 12:54:28 PM
Navalny Ally Sentenced to 9 Years in Prison in Latest Crackdown on Opposition
- Ksenia Fadeyeva, a Navalny ally, sentenced to 9 years in prison in Siberia for running an "extremist organization"
- Reflects Kremlin's continued crackdown on Navalny's political movement years after it was banned
- Fadeyeva won a seat in Tomsk municipal parliament in 2020 while coordinating Navalny's office there
- Navalny currently serving 19-year sentence, recently transferred to remote penal colony in Russian Arctic
- Courts have sentenced several other Navalny allies to long prison terms over past year on extremism charges