KEY POINTS
- Alexei Navalny faces a further 20 years in a “monstrous” Russian penal colony.
- A court is expected to hand down its verdict in early August.
- The Russian opposition politician is already serving sentences totalling 11-and-a-half years.
Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny will soon learn whether he will spend another 20 years in a “monstrous” Russian penal colony.
On Thursday, Russian state prosecutors asked a court to sentence the 47-year-old to a further 20 years in the IK-6 penal colony on criminal charges, including extremism, at the close of his trial, his supporters…
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