Alexei Navalny loses appeal against Russian prison camp sentence
Opposition figure appeals to Russians from court, saying ‘to live is to risk it all’
A Moscow court has rejected an appeal from Alexei Navalny that virtually guarantees the Russian opposition figure will be sent to a prison camp for two and a half years.
In a widely expected ruling, the judge upheld a decision to imprison Navalny by reversing a parole handed down in 2014 for embezzlement in a case Navalny said was politically motivated.
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