Alexei Navalny Sentenced to 19 More Years in Prison

Click to watch the trailer for "Navalny" by Daniel Roher, detailing the assassination attempt of Alexei Navalny, in which he was poisoned with a military-grade nerve agent.

MOSCOW — In a closed hearing inside a penal colony auditorium on Friday, with journalists and members of the public barred from attending, Alexei Navalny, who is already serving an 11-and-a-half-year sentence, received an additional 19 years, for charges including inciting and financing extremism, creating an illegal NGO, the rehabilitation of Nazism, and inciting children to dangerous acts.

Navalny is the biggest opposition to Vladimir Putin and the war in Ukraine. “We know for sure that if one in 10 of those outraged by the corruption of Putin and his officials took to the streets, the government would fall tomorrow. We know for sure that if those who are against the war took to the streets, they would stop it immediately,” said Navalny. 

Cinema for Peace organized the medical evacuation of Alexei Navalny from Siberia to Berlin when he was poisoned with Novichok by FSB agents in August 2020.