{"id":217879,"date":"2023-06-07T00:13:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=217879"},"modified":"2023-06-07T00:14:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T18:44:37","slug":"russian-court-sets-date-for-new-trial-of-jailed-kremlin-foe-navalny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/06\/07\/russian-court-sets-date-for-new-trial-of-jailed-kremlin-foe-navalny\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian court sets date for new trial of jailed Kremlin foe Navalny"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Moscow, Jun 6 (AP) A Moscow court on Tuesday set the date for a new trial of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that could keep him in prison for decades.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Moscow City Court held a preliminary hearing behind closed doors to discuss technical issues related to the trial of the Kremlin&#8217;s arch foe before it begins on June 19.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Navalny&#8217;s spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, said that the trial will be held at a maximum security prison 250 kilometers east of Moscow where Navalny is serving a nine-year sentence for fraud and contempt of court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Navalny, 47, who exposed official corruption and organised major anti-Kremlin protests, was arrested in January 2021 upon returning to Moscow after recuperating in Germany from nerve agent poisoning that he blamed on the Kremlin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Navalny has said that the new extremism charges which he rejected as &#8220;absurd&#8221; could keep him in prison for another 30 years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said an investigator told him that he would also face a separate military court trial on terrorism charges that could potentially carry a life sentence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The new accusations come as Russian authorities are conducting an intensified crackdown on dissent amid the fighting in Ukraine, which Navalny has harshly criticised.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Navalny&#8217;s supporters marked his birthday on Sunday by holding pickets and demonstrations, and more than 100 people were arrested. (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moscow, Jun 6 (AP) A Moscow court on Tuesday set the date for a new trial of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny that could keep him in prison for decades. The Moscow City Court held a preliminary hearing behind closed doors to discuss technical issues related to the trial of the Kremlin&#8217;s arch foe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-217879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}