Russia's Navalny says he is facing jail beyond 2050

Alexei Navalny, the jailed Russian absorption leader, has said helium is being investigated connected coercion charges which could spot him imprisoned beyond 2050.

Speaking via video nexus from his penal colony, Navalny called the caller lawsuit against him "absurd".

He is already facing 11 and fractional years successful situation connected a scope of charges, which his supporters accidental are trumped-up.

Separately, different starring absorption figure, erstwhile Yekaterinburg politician Yevgeny Roizman, has gone connected trial.

He has pleaded not blameworthy to charges of discrediting Russia's equipped forces.

Russia has intensified a crackdown connected its critics astatine location since invading Ukraine past year, with galore successful exile oregon down bars.

Navalny said successful tribunal connected Wednesday that a caller transgression lawsuit has been opened which would spot him judged by a subject tribunal connected "terrorism" charges.

He said it related to a transgression lawsuit opened against him successful October connected allegations of creating an extremist group, inciting hatred against authorities officials, and calling for unauthorised protests.

"They person brought absurd charges against me, according to which I americium facing up to 35 years," said the Kremlin critic, who has been successful situation since helium returned to Russia successful January 2021 aft recovering from a nervus cause onslaught successful Siberia.

There has been nary confirmation yet of a abstracted transgression lawsuit from Russian authorities.

Navalny's latest tribunal quality was portion of a pre-trial proceeding related to the magnitude of clip authorities are giving him to familiarise himself with the lawsuit files. He is owed to reappear successful tribunal adjacent week.

His existent situation word comes to an extremity successful 2031, but if helium is fixed the maximum punishment successful each cases opened against him helium volition enactment down bars beyond 2050, according to investigative task Agentstvo, citing lawyers.

After his quality connected Wednesday, Navalny said helium had been returned to solitary confinement, having spent 15 days determination already.

Meanwhile, different high-profile Russian dissident is facing 5 years successful jailhouse successful the metropolis helium led for respective years. The prosecution successful Yekaterinburg says erstwhile politician Yevgeny Roizman took portion successful a YouTube treatment past August wherever helium negatively assessed the mode Russian troops were being utilized successful Ukraine.

In an interrogation with AFP past summer, Mr Roizman said: "Something horrible is happening, evil is prevailing. Absolutely vile evil is abruptly prevailing earlier our eyes."

Until his apprehension successful August, the ex-mayor was 1 of the past remaining salient absorption politicians successful Russia who hadn't been killed, detained, oregon forced retired of the country.

In interviews, helium was often asked wherefore helium hadn't fled Russia, similar truthful galore of his chap activists. "I can't flee," helium said soon aft the commencement of the full-scale penetration of Ukraine. "It is unacceptable for maine to bash that."

Earlier this week, successful yet different amusement of Russia's crackdown connected dissenting opinions implicit the invasion, an interior ministry idiosyncratic was sentenced to 7 years successful jailhouse for spreading "fake news" astir the warfare successful a idiosyncratic telephone call.

Sergei Klokov was detained a fewer weeks aft Russia's penetration of Ukraine successful March 2022 erstwhile his telephone was tapped. He reportedly told a person implicit the phone: "We deliberation we are warring fascism, but determination isn't fascism there. There isn't."