Imprisoned leader of the Russian opposition Alexey Navalny announced today that he is under investigation on terrorism charges that could lead to a 30-year prison sentence.

In comments posted on Twitter by associates of Navalny, a critic of the Kremlin, who is already serving a total of 11.5 years in prison on fraud charges, he said:They made absurd accusations threatening me with 30 years in prison… that while in prison I commit acts of terrorism.“.

Navalny was poisoned in Siberia in August 2020 with a nerve agent, Western laboratories have established. Kremlin she denied trying to kill him. He was imprisoned the following year when he returned to Russia after treatment in Germany.

The organizations he founded are banned in Russia as “extremist”. This month, Russian investigators formally linked Navalny supporters to the murder of Vladlen Tatarsky, a popular military blogger and supporter of the Russian campaign in Ukraine, who died in a bomb blast in St. Petersburg. Navalny’s associates deny any involvement in the murder.

As CNN reported two weeks ago, Navalny had severe stomach pains again, and his associates do not rule out that another attempt was made to poison him. The imprisoned leader of the Russian opposition was reported to have lost 8 kilograms in just two weeks.

In a separate development, Russian investigators said today that 11 people have been put on an “international wanted list” in the Navalny-related case, the state news agency TASS reported.

According to APE-MPE, CNN and Reuters