The aged father of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s high aide was sentenced Thursday to 3 years in jail for actions his son linked to his personal political actions.
Navalny’s allies slammed the sentencing of former housing fee member Yury Zhdanov, 67, on prices of abuse of workplace as inhumane.
“It’s completely cannibalistic,” lawyer Vladimir Voronin instructed Russia’s The Insider information web site.
“[Authorities] proceed bullying the pensioner and holding him hostage due to his son’s actions. That is low and vile even for our system,” Voronin mentioned.
A court docket within the northern Russian metropolis of Arkhangelsk in December handed a three-year suspended sentence to Zhdanov. He was arrested once more days later for allegedly breaking the phrases of his suspended sentence.
On Thursday, a court docket in northern Russia’s Nenets autonomous district transformed Zhdanov’s suspended sentence to an actual sentence in a penal colony, the Mediazona information web site reported.
Zhdanov’s son Ivan Zhdanov has linked the felony investigation to his personal political exercise.
The youthful Zhdanov headed Navalny’s now-dismantled Anti-Corruption Basis (FBK), which had printed explosive video investigations into high-level corruption earlier than authorities banned it as “extremist” final summer season.
He’s among the many a number of key Navalny allies who’ve fled Russia amid the authorities’ widening crackdown on dissent.
