The US State Department calls the verdict 'an unjust conclusion to an unjust trial,' while the European Union condemns what it calls another politically motivated ruling and called for Alexei Navalny's immediate release.
Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest domestic critic, is already serving sentences totaling 11-1/2 years on fraud and other charges that he says are also bogus. His political movement has been outlawed and declared “extremist.”
“Nineteen years in a maximum security penal colony. The number does not matter. I understand perfectly well that, like many political prisoners, I am serving a life sentence. Where the life sentence is measured by the length of my life or the length of the life of this regime,” said Navalny. “With this belligerent reaction, the US authorities practically confirm the correct nature of the verdict…. It is to the administration’s advantage to take ‘into its orbit’ for the sake of jolting the situation in our country.”
“For a new, free, rich country to be born, it must have parents. Those who want it. Who expect it and who are willing to make sacrifices for its birth,” Navalny said in his closing statement last month.
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