{"id":19469,"date":"2025-04-15T18:48:24","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T18:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/4-journalists-accused-of-working-for-kremlin-foe-alexei-navalny-convicted-of-extremism-sentenced-to-prison\/"},"modified":"2025-04-15T18:48:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-15T18:48:24","slug":"4-journalists-accused-of-working-for-kremlin-foe-alexei-navalny-convicted-of-extremism-sentenced-to-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/4-journalists-accused-of-working-for-kremlin-foe-alexei-navalny-convicted-of-extremism-sentenced-to-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"4 journalists accused of working for Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny convicted of extremism, sentenced to prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A Russian court on Tuesday convicted four journalists of extremism for working for an anti-corruption group founded by the late opposition leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/tag\/alexei-navalny\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Alexei Navalny<\/a> and sentenced each to 5 1\/2 years in prison.<\/p>\n<p>Antonina Favorskaya, Kostantin Gabov, Sergey Karelin and Artyom Kriger were found guilty of involvement with a group that had been labeled as extremist. All four had maintained their innocence, arguing they were being prosecuted for doing their jobs as journalists.<\/p>\n<p>The closed-door trial was part of an unrelenting crackdown on dissent that has reached an unprecedented scale after Moscow <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/feature\/ukraine-in-turmoil\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">sent troops into Ukraine<\/a><\/span> in February 2022. <\/p>\n<p>The authorities have targeted opposition figures, independent journalists, rights activists and ordinary Russians critical of the Kremlin with prosecution, jailing hundreds and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russians-flee-country-over-crackdowns-on-protests-news-outlets\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">prompting thousands to flee the country<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/15\/22f07985-830d-408e-8ce4-04d900835bdc\/thumbnail\/1240x827\/0bde837b42d12759285a847f346e0879\/ap25105545952627.jpg?v=412b48b2e3085db78364e6e02a7dc2b8#\" alt=\"Russia Journalists Trial \" height=\"827\" width=\"1240\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Russian journalist Antonina Favorskaya stands in a defendant&#8217;s cage of the Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025. (AP Photo)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Favorskaya and Kriger worked with SotaVision, an independent Russian news outlet that covers protests and political trials. Gabov is a freelance producer who has worked for multiple organizations, including Reuters. Karelin, a freelance video journalist, has done work for Western media outlets, including The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p>The four journalists were accused of working with Navalny&#8217;s <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russia-alexei-navalny-news-putin-anti-corruption-foundation-closed\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Foundation for Fighting Corruption<\/a><\/span>, which was designated as extremist and outlawed in 2021 in a move widely seen as politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Navalny was President Vladimir Putin&#8217;s fiercest and most prominent foe and <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russia-alexei-navalny-opposition-foundation-extremist-vladimir-putin\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">relentlessly campaigned<\/a><\/span> against official corruption in Russia. Navalny <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alexey-navalnys-team-confirms-the-death-of-putin-critic-says-his-mother-is-searching-for-his-body\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">died in February 2024<\/a><\/span> in an Arctic penal colony while serving a <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alexey-navalny-russia-putin-critic-extremism-verdict-prison-sentence\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">19-year sentence<\/a><\/span> on a number of charges, including running an extremist group, which he had rejected as politically driven.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/15\/e813d75d-eb20-4578-a18f-805d83fbe229\/thumbnail\/1240x827\/bfaf2750a4d8bd70e6d2d0c890e199c8\/ap25105554189792.jpg?v=412b48b2e3085db78364e6e02a7dc2b8#\" alt=\"Russia Journalists Trial \" height=\"827\" width=\"1240\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Russian journalist Konstantin Gabov stands in a defendant&#8217;s cage of the Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Favorskaya said at an earlier court appearance open to the public that she was being prosecuted for a story she did on abuse Navalny faced behind bars. Speaking to reporters from the defendants&#8217; cage before the verdict, she also said she was punished for helping <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/alexey-navalny-funeral-russia-crowdsmoscow-church-tight-security\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">organize Navalny&#8217;s funeral<\/a><\/span>. <\/p>\n<p>Gabov, in a closing statement prepared for court that was published by the independent Novaya Gazeta newspaper, said the accusations against him were groundless and the prosecution failed to prove them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I understand perfectly well &#8230; what kind of country I live in. Throughout history, Russia has never been different, there is nothing new in the current situation,&#8221; Gabov said in the statement. &#8220;Independent journalism is equated to extremism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Karelin prepared for his closing arguments that also was published by <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/russia-ukraine-novaya-gazeta-newspaper-forced-suspend-publication\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Novaya Gazeta<\/a><\/span>, he said he had agreed to do street interviews for Popular Politics, a YouTube channel founded by Navalny&#8217;s associates, while trying to provide for his wife and a young child. He stressed that the channel wasn&#8217;t outlawed as extremist and had done nothing illegal.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/15\/13790c9b-2bea-410e-831a-c445501cb399\/thumbnail\/1240x827\/f4612a89fc152dab507e7616f9018756\/ap25105547716885.jpg?v=412b48b2e3085db78364e6e02a7dc2b8#\" alt=\"Russia Journalists Trial \" height=\"827\" width=\"1240\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Russian journalist Sergey Karelin stands in a defendant&#8217;s cage of the Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                AP<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8220;Remorse is considered to be a mitigating circumstance. It&#8217;s the criminals who need to have remorse for what they did. But I am in prison for my work, for the honest and impartial attitude to journalism, FOR THE LOVE for my family and country,&#8221; he wrote in a separate speech for court that also was published by the outlet, in which he emphasized his feelings in capital letters.<\/p>\n<p>Kriger, in a closing statement published by SotaVision, said he was imprisoned and added to the Russian financial intelligence&#8217;s registry of extremists and terrorists &#8220;only because I have conscientiously carried out my professional duties as an honest, incorruptible and independent journalist for 4 1\/2 years.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Don&#8217;t despair guys, sooner or later it will end and those who delivered the sentence will go behind bars,&#8221; Kriger said after the verdict.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/04\/15\/b4dbd923-7227-45f3-9950-4aeeabe4fb3a\/thumbnail\/1240x827\/8968ceeb7700a075172bdfaa8fd48926\/ap25105551224002.jpg?v=412b48b2e3085db78364e6e02a7dc2b8#\" alt=\"Russia Journalists Trial \" height=\"827\" width=\"1240\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Russian journalist Artyom Kriger stands in a defendant&#8217;s cage of the Nagatinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, April 15, 2025.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Supporters who gathered in the court building chanted and applauded as the four journalists were led out of the courtroom after the verdict.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian human rights group Memorial designated all four as political prisoners, among more than 900 others held in the country. That number includes Mikhail Kriger, Artyom Kriger&#8217;s uncle, a Moscow-based activist who was arrested in 2022 and is serving a seven-year prison sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Mikhail Kriger was convicted of justifying terrorism and inciting hatred over Facebook comments in which he expressed a desire &#8220;to hang&#8221; Putin.<\/p>\n<p>The four journalists are not the only people linked to Navalny who have faced charges from the Russian legal system. In January , three lawyers who had defended Navalny were convicted of participating in an &#8220;extremist organization&#8221; and sentenced to prison. The lawyers had helped transmit Navalny&#8217;s prison statements to the world before his death. Vadim Kobzev, the most high-profile member of the team, was given a 5 1\/2 year sentence. Alexey Lipster was sentenced to five years, and Igor Sergunin was sentenced to 3 1\/2 years. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In July 2024, five months after Navalny&#8217;s death was reported, Russia\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/yulia-navalnaya-alexei-navalny-russia-arrest-warrant\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">issued an arrest warrant<\/a><\/span> for his wife,\u00a0<span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/yulia-navalnaya-alexei-navalny-russia-death-60-minutes\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Yulia Navalnaya<\/a><\/span>. The country accused Navalnaya of participating in an &#8220;extremist organization.&#8221; Navalnaya, who lives in Germany and was named the chairperson of the Human Rights Foundation in July 2024, derided the decision on social media. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>    <!-- tags --><\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || 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