"Navalny's Jail Time Extended to 19 Years: Putin's Fear of Dissent Grows"

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been sentenced to an additional 19 years in jail after being convicted of extremism in a closed-door trial. Navalny, who is already serving a nearly 12-year sentence for fraud and other charges, was found guilty of founding and financing an extremist organization and trivializing Nazism. The trial has been widely condemned as politically motivated, with calls for Navalny's immediate release from the European Union, the United Nations, and the United States. Navalny, a prominent critic of the Kremlin, was the victim of a near-fatal poisoning attack in 2020 and has been targeted by authorities since then.