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Four journalists with ties to Alexei Navalny's banned Anti-Corruption Foundation received five-and-a-half-year prison sentences in a closed-door trial in Moscow.

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Four Russian journalists, shown at a court in Moscow, Russia, on October 2, have been sentenced to five years and six months in prison, after they were accused of working for a banned organization linked to Alexey Navalny.

Overview

  • A Moscow court sentenced Antonina Favorskaya, Konstantin Gabov, Sergei Karelin, and Artyom Kriger to five-and-a-half years in prison on extremism charges.
  • The journalists were accused of producing content for Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, which was banned as an extremist organization in 2021.
  • The trial, held behind closed doors, is part of a broader crackdown on dissent and independent media in Russia following the 2022 Ukraine invasion.
  • All four denied the charges, asserting they were targeted for their work as independent journalists covering political trials and protests.
  • This sentencing follows intensified repression after Navalny's death in prison in 2024, with international groups condemning the erosion of press freedom in Russia.