Russian court rejects jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s appeal

A Russian courtroom on Tuesday rejected an enchantment from opposition chief Alexei Navalny in opposition to a nine-year jail sentence he's serving for large-scale fraud and contempt of courtroom, costs which he denies.

Navalny, by far Russia’s most outstanding opposition determine, was handed a nine-year jail time period in March for fraud and contempt of courtroom, on high of 2-1/2 years he's already serving. He denies all the costs in opposition to him and says they had been fabricated to thwart his political ambitions.

Russian opposition chief Alexei Navalny is seen on a display screen by way of a video hyperlink from the IK-2 corrective penal colony in Pokrov throughout a courtroom listening to to think about an enchantment in opposition to his jail sentence in Moscow, Russia on Could 24, 2022.

Reuters