Source: Sky News [UK]
“Four journalists accused of working for the banned organisation of late opposition leader Alexei Navalny have been sentenced by a Moscow court to five and a half years in a penal colony, in the latest example of Russia’s unrelenting crackdown on dissent and press freedom. Antonina Favorskaya, Sergei Karelin, Konstantin Gabov, and Artem Kriger were found guilty of taking part in extremist activities. They were arrested last year and have been on trial behind closed doors since October. … Prosecutors had accused the four of creating material for Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, which is outlawed as an extremist organisation by Russian authorities. Opposition activists and the journalists’ legal teams have dismissed the trial as politically motivated.” (04/15/25)