Russian opposition leader's 9-year sentence appeal rejected

MOSCOW -

A Russian courtroom on Tuesday rejected opposition chief Alexei Navalny's enchantment of a nine-year jail sentence for fraud.

The rejection means Navalny shall be despatched to a high-security jail, in accordance with the impartial information website Mediazona.

Navalny, the Kremlin's most persistent critic who had constructed a nationwide community of supporters, was arrested in January 2021 upon getting back from Germany, the place he had been recuperating from nerve-agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin.

Authorities mentioned the six months of restoration overseas violated phrases of a 3 1/2-year suspended sentence in a fraud case.

In March, he was sentenced to 9 years in a separate case alleging that he defrauded supporters by searching for donations to run for president although he knew the earlier conviction disqualified him from being a candidate.