Despite being imprisoned, Alexey Navalny of Russia claims he is now facing additional terrorist accusations.

Alexey Navalny, a Russian opposition figure, has been accused of committing “terrorist attacks” and has been told the case will be heard by a military court. His daughter, Daria Navalnaya, told CNN that the Russian authorities were depriving her father of food. Navalny is currently serving a nine-year jail term at a maximum-security prison east of Moscow after being convicted of large-scale fraud by a Russian court last year. In 2020, Navalny was poisoned with the nerve agent novichok and returned to Russia a few days later where he was soon detained. His spokesperson, Kira Yarmysh, said that he now faces two big trials, one on extremism, which carry a total of up to 30 years of imprisonment and is likely to start by the end of May.

The Russian Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against Alexei Navalny in September 2021 on the grounds of the alleged “creation of an extremist community.” Navalny called the charges against him “absurd” and said they were made by the authorities. The director of Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, Ivan Zhdanov, said that part of the terrorism case against him involves comments Navalny’s chief of staff, Leonid Volkov, made on YouTube last year about Putin. The investigator in the terrorism case is considering the killing of military blogger Vladlen Tatarsky as part of the charges. Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation deny the claims. Yarmysh has ten days to “familiarize himself” with the documents detailing the extremism case against him, and the court will consider the issue again after 5 May.