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Scores of world figures urge Putin to free Navalny in open letter

Scores of famous figures, including writers and actors, have signed an open letter urging Russian President Vladimir Putin to free opposition politician Alexei Navalny and to end what they called his torture in prison.

Reuters

Alexei Navalny says he is facing jail in Russia beyond 2050

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has said he faces imprisonment beyond 2050 on terrorism charges.

Evening Standard

Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he faces life in jail over terror charges

Allies of opposition leader already serving 11 years say charges may be linked to death of pro-war blogger

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Alexei Navalny says Russia investigating ‘absurd’ terrorism charges with potential 30-year sentence

Jailed Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny says investigators have opened what he calls an "absurd" terrorism case against him.

The New Daily

Jailed Russian opposition leader Navalny to face new trial

Imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is set to face a new trial on extremism charges that he has described as a Kremlin-ordered effort to extend his time behind bars

The Independent UK

Navalny says he faces 30 more years in Russian jail in terrorism case

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Wednesday that investigators had opened what he called an "absurd" terrorism case against him that could see him sentenced to an additional 30 years in jail.

Reuters

Moscow court rejects appeal from cafe bombing suspect

A Russian court has rejected an appeal from a suspect in a bombing that killed a well-known Russian military blogger

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Russian woman loses appeal against detention over bomb that killed military blogger

A Russian court denied bail on Monday to a woman charged with terrorism over a bomb attack that killed a pro-war Russian military blogger earlier this month.

Reuters

These men can save Russia: we must not desert them

Letter: Vladimir Putin must not be allowed to let leading Russian opposition figures Alexei Navalny and Vladimir Kara-Murza die in jail, write Bernard Guetta, Timothy Garton Ash, Ezio Mauro and Adam Michnik

The Guardian - UK

Last remaining voices of the Russian opposition are being silenced amid war in Ukraine

Voices raised against the Kremlin are increasingly being silenced as Russia this week handed jail sentences to two prominent opponents of the current regime: Russian-British national Vladimir Kara-Murza was handed a 25-year prison sentence on Monday and a Moscow court on Wednesday dismissed Ilya Yashin’s appeal.

France 24

Russia crosses new lines in crackdown on Putin's enemies

With virtually all the Kremlin's opponents already jailed or in exile, and liberal press outlets and human rights groups forced to shut down, it might have appeared that years of repression in Russia had achieved their objective.

Reuters

Vladimir Putin critic Alexei Navalny kneed in the groin by brutal prison guards

Alexei Navalny received a knee blow to the groin after refusing to enter his cell when an unwashed homeless man was put there by prison warders, his lawyer said

Daily Mirror

Russia's Navalny faces new charges after prison 'provocation' - lawyer

Russia's leading opposition figure, Alexei Navalny, faces the prospect of new criminal charges after in effect being forced to break the rules of the maximum security penal colony where he is being held, one of his lawyers said on Tuesday.

Reuters

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 419 of the invasion

Putin visits commanders in occupied Kherson and Luhansk regions of Ukraine; WSJ reporter Evan Gershkovich appears in Moscow court

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'Stalin-style' show trials and unexplained deaths of opposition figures show the depth of repression in Putin's Russia

Longtime Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison after what the journalist and activist has dismissed as a 1930s-style “show trial”.

The Week

Is Alexei Navalny being slowly killed in captivity?

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is being gradually poisoned behind bars, his allies claim.

The Independent UK

Opposition figure's sentence underlines Russian intolerance

The 25-year treason sentence imposed on prominent Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza on Monday was a particularly severe show of authorities’ intensifying intolerance of criticism of the war in Ukraine and other dissenting opinions

Daily Mirror

Putin opponent in jail is suffering 'mystery illness that may be slow poisoning'

Alexei Navalny's spokeswoman tweeted that an ambulance was called last week to the maximum security IK-6 penal colony at Melekhovo, about 155 miles east of Moscow

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The Guardian - UK

Alexei Navalny in ‘critical’ situation after possible poisoning, says ally

Russian opposition leader said to have had severe stomach pains, with ambulance being called to penal colony

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy and UK prime minister discuss accelerating military support for Ukraine – as it happened

Rishi Sunak also condemns beheading of Ukrainian prisoner of war as leaders discuss situation on battlefield

The Guardian - AU

Russia-Ukraine war at a glance: what we know on day 415 of the invasion

MoD says Russian and Wagner troops are making gains in Donetsk frontline town; US arrests 21-year-old air national guardsman over Pentagon leaks

Evening Standard

Supporters of Russian dissident Alexei Navalny say he may be being poisoned in prison

Russian dissident politician Alexei Navalny may have been poisoned according to his spokeswoman who says he is ill in jail with a mystery ailment.

The Independent UK

Russia’s Navalny ‘has mystery illness which may be slow poisoning’

Russia’s most prominent opposition leader is suffering ‘acute pain’, which supporters fear may be due to poison

WEKU

Jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is ill, perhaps poisoned, an aide says

The 46-year-old Navalny fell ill last Friday when he was moved to a conventional cell and had lost about 18 pounds in 15 days. A spokeswoman says it's believed he's being given low doses of poison.

Reuters

Factbox: Who is Alexei Navalny and what does he say of Russia, Putin and death?

Russia's most prominent opposition leader Alexei Navalny has lost 8 kg in jail and is suffering an illness that could be some sort of slow acting poison, his spokeswoman said.

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