An ally of Russia’s main opponent, Alexei Navalny, Lilia Chanicheva, was sentenced Wednesday to seven and a half years in prison on charges of “extremism,” a court in central Russia announced.
The opponent was found guilty of creating an “extremist organization” and “sentenced to 7 years and 6 months in a common regime penal colony,” the Kirovsky Court of Ufa noted.
Lilia Tchanycheva, 41, from Ufa, has also been banned from operating websites and organizing mass gatherings for seven years.
This verdict is “unfair,” his lawyer, Ramil Qizatul Line, responded on Telegram.
The prosecution had requested 12 years in prison for Lilia Chanicheva, the former coordinator in Ufa of Alexei Navalny’s team, a Russian opponent who survived in 2020 a poisoning ordered by Vladimir Putin, and has been imprisoned since January 2021 in Russia.
Sentenced to nine years in prison for “fraud” which he considers fictitious, Alexei Navalny should soon be tried in a new case of “extremism” as he risks an additional 35 years in prison.
An Oufa accounting specialist, Lilia Tchanycheva gave up her job to join Mr. Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) in 2017, and to actively participate in the anti-corruption protest movement in her region.
The opponent was arrested in November 2021 when Navalny’s NGO was banned as an “extremist organization” and its leader imprisoned.
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