Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s most vocal domestic critic, was jailed last February for two and a half years on old fraud charges after surviving a poisoning attack that he and the West blame on the Kremlin.
“Listen you, cowards and scoundrels! I demand that I am allowed to attend my husband’s trial,” Yuliya Navalnaya, 45, said on Instagram.The fresh trial will be held in his penal colony in the town of Pokrov outside the capital.“My husband is an honest man” Navalnaya said. “And they are keeping him in prison because he is not afraid of this government”.
Investigators accuse Navalny of stealing for personal use more than $4.7 million in donations to his political organisations. The charges carry a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison.
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