A Siberian People’s Deputy Ksenia Fadeeva was sentenced today to nine years in prison for “extremism”, collaborating with Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalnyserving almost 30 years in an Arctic prison.

Fadeeva was found guilty coordinate the activities of an extremist organization by decision of the Sovetsky District Court of the Siberian city of Tomsk, reports the digital portal Middle zone.

The opponent, who led Navalny’s team in Tomsk, where she was elected to the city Duma in 2020, is also accused of participating in the activities of a public organization that violated the rights of citizens.

Defender, Semyon Vodnevwho called the verdict “illegal, unreasonable and unfair”, said that appeals the decision to the Supreme Court.

The convict was the last person in see Navalny before his poisoning in August 2020, for which the opponent directly accused the president, Vladimir Putin.

Was arrested for the first time at the end of 2021 because of his links to a jailed politician and his Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was declared extremist that same year after condemning illicit enrichment in government.

Navalny was poisoned on August 20 as he prepared to leave Tomsk, the Siberian university city where he had come to expose corruption of high-ranking officials local residents and support opposition candidates.

“I met with Navalny the day before his poisoning. He spent three days in the city preparing for the elections. I left him at the hotel and never saw him again.“Fadeeva then commented EFE.

Navalny accuses Federal Security Service (FSB) organize a secret operation to poison the Kremlin’s number one enemy with a chemical substance, Newbieinvented by Soviet scientists and subject to destruction, according to international conventions.

For this reason, several opponents, including Fadeev, contacted the Investigative Committee with a request to initiate a criminal case. criminal investigation against the intelligence services.

Navalny, who condemned the Russian military campaign in Ukraine and launched a campaign against Putin’s re-election in 2024, was recently transferred to a prison in the Arctic Circle.

(EFE)