Russian court sentences Navalny to 9 years in prison for fraud

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MOSCOW (AP) — A Russian court found opposition leader Alexei Navalny guilty of fraud and contempt and sentenced him to nine years in a maximum-security prison on Tuesday.

The judge also sentenced Navalny to pay a fine of 1.2 million rubles ($11,500).

Navalny is serving a two-and-a-half year sentence in a penal colony east of Moscow. His followers have said that the intention is to keep Navalny, a former adversary of President Vladimir Putin, in prison for a long period.

Navalny said the charges are false.

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