The new sentence imposed on jailed Russian politician Alexei Navalny on Friday raises renewed serious concerns about judicial harassment and instrumentalization of the country's court system for political purposes, the UN Human Rights High Commissioner said in a statement. Volker Türk said the 19-year sentence was based on vague and overly broad charges of "extremism" and followed a closed trial on the premises of the prison where Mr. Navalny is already serving two other sentences amounting to 11 and a half years.

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