Alexei Navalny said he is under investigation on terrorism charges.
Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday he was under investigation on terrorism charges, which could see him sentenced to 30 years in prison.
In comments posted on Twitter by aides to Navalny, the Kremlin critic, who is already serving sentences totaling eleven and a half years on charges including fraud, said: “They have made absurd charges threatening me with 30 years imprisonment … that while in prison, I commit acts of terrorism.”
Navalny was poisoned in Siberia in August 2020 with what Western laboratories had identified as a nerve gas. The Kremlin denied trying to kill him. He was imprisoned the following year when he returned to Russia after receiving medical treatment in Germany.
His campaign organizations have been banned in Russia as “extremist”. This month, Russian investigators formally linked Navalny supporters to the murder of Vladlen Tatarsky, a popular military blogger and supporter of the Russian campaign in Ukraine, who was killed by a bomb in St. Petersburg. Navalny allies have denied any connection to the assassination.
Separately on Wednesday, Russian investigators said 11 people have been placed on an “international wanted list” in a case related to Navalny, state news agency TASS reported.
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