Moscow (EFE)
As reported by the Russian Investigation Committee (CIR), Navalni will participate in the hearing by videoconference from prison.
Threat of perpetual captivity
Navalni received the 700 pages with the criminal case just 36 hours before the start of the process in the Basmanni Court in Moscow, according to what his team reported on the Telegram channel.
“Now I am stuffed with case materials and still have to work eight hours a day. On the agenda there is no time to study the documents”, commented the opponent.
His lawyers have asked the leadership of the Vladimir region prison where he is being held to give the prisoner time to get acquainted with the case.
In response, the Investigation Committee of Russia today gave the defendant and his defense until May 5 to study the file.
In October of last year, the opponent’s lawyers announced that a new criminal case had been filed against their client for creating an extremist organization, inciting hatred towards officials and calling for participation in unauthorized demonstrations.
Navalni assured that he can be sentenced to 30 years in prison; His collaborator, Leonid Volkov, raised that sentence to 35 years, while the Russian agencies speak of fifteen years.
Some opponents point out that Navalni, who has criticized the so-called “special military operation”, will not see the light of day as long as the current head of the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin, remains in power.
Deterioration of your health
His team recently expressed fear that the politician is being poisoned, as he has lost eight kilos in weight.
“We do not exclude that right now they are slowly poisoning Navalni. They kill him little by little so that he does not attract so much attention, ”said Kira Yarsmish, one of his closest collaborators and a spokesperson for the opposition, in a video posted on Twitter.
Along the same lines, the opponent’s lawyer, Vadim Kobzev, assured that after his client was poisoned three years ago with Novichok, any deterioration in his health must be taken very seriously.
“We will demand that toxicological and radiological tests be carried out on him,” he said on Telegram.
Previously, Kovzev already accused the Russian prison authorities of having “a clear strategy to destroy Navalni’s health by all the forces and means at their disposal.”
In mid-January Navalni was examined by a doctor after hundreds of doctors denounced his fragile state of health in an open letter to the president, Vladimir Putin.
crackdown campaign
His co-religionists link Navalni’s sending to the punishment cell, first, with the Oscar nomination for a documentary about his life, which would later win the award, which was collected by his wife, Yulia, who demanded his release.
The opponent, who is 46 years old and received the Sakharov Prize from the European Parliament last year, considers that the objective of the prison services is to make the prisoner sick so that he has no choice but to collaborate.
The Russian Justice rejected an appeal by Navalni’s lawyers in November and confirmed the prison sentence that was imposed on him for fraud and contempt.
Since the beginning of the Russian military campaign in Ukraine, the Kremlin has launched a campaign to persecute all those citizens, activists or politicians who demonstrate against its militaristic plans.
Last week the politician and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murzá was sentenced to 25 years in prison, while on Thursday the process against the only opponent critical of the Kremlin who headed the City Council of a city of more than one million inhabitants, Yevgueni Roizman, will begin. .