A Russian court has four journalists because of cooperation with the opposition Alexej Nawalny sentenced to five and a half years in prison. In a trial in the exclusion of the public, a court in Moscow Antonina Faworskaja, Konstantin Gabow, Sergej Karelin and Artjom Kreiger owed the allegation of extremism.
The indictment accused them of researching material for Nawalny’s anti -corruption (FBK). The accused rejected the accusation. FBK is in Russia classified as an extremist organization, which allows the law enforcement officers to proceed against everyone who is connected to the foundation.
Perforated reported on processes against regime critics
The four accused were arrested in 2024. They accuse the judiciary to pursue them because of their journalistic activity. So Krig had according to you Report of the exile Russian portal Meduza Among other things about court proceedings and demonstrations in Moscow reports that Karelin made street surveys for a YouTube channel that is associated with Nawalny’s organization. Gabow, who worked for the Reuters news agency and Deutsche Welle, among other things, reported, among other things, about the persecution of the human rights organization Memorial. Faworskaya reported processes against prominent opposition figures such as Ilja Jaschin and Vladimir Kara-Mursa. At the beginning of 2024, she worked on a video report on the city of Charp, where Nawalny’s prison was found. The last videothat shows the oppositional alive Meduza-According to report, she started.
Nawalny died in February 2024 under the circumstances that are still unexplained in a Russian criminal colony in the far north of the country. His relatives and employees accuse the Russian regime and President Vladimir Putin to have ordered his murder. In prison, Nawalny had been moved to a single cell again and again under advanced reasons. The politician’s health complaints were ignored after accusations of his confidants and reinforced by the conditions of detention.
The long -time regime critic, who was by far the most important Russian oppositional person, should be released six months later as part of a large prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States and other western countries. Nawalny’s familiar accused Putin of being predicted with a murder of the opposition.
Nawalny’s lawyers are also in custody
Nawalny had already been poisoned several years earlier by the Russian domestic secret service FSB with the internationally banned chemical fighting material Nowitschok and almost died. Immediately when he returned to Russia after treatment in Germany, Nawalny was arrested and sentenced to high prison terms in several processes.
The regime also proceeds against colleagues Nawalnys, most of whom live in exile. At the beginning of January, three former lawyers of the oppositional were sentenced to several years in prison under the accusation of cooperation in an extremist organization. Critics accuse the regime of wanting to hold lawyers even after Russian standards, who are tough, to represent people who are accused of political offenses. According to the human rights organization OWD Info There are currently almost 1,600 political prisoners in Russia, and more than 3,000 people are also pursued for political offenses.
