Alexei Navalny: Leading Putin critic loses appeal against jail term

Russia's prominent jailed opposition figure Alexei Navalny has lost an appeal against a nine-year prison sentence.

Long seen as a President Putin's most vocal critic in Russia, he was detained the moment he flew home from Germany after treatment for a near-fatal nerve agent attack in Siberia in August 2020.

Mr Navalny appeared at the court in Moscow via a video link from his penal colony in Pokrov.