Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny says he has been handed new criminal charges

Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny appears on a screen via video link before an external hearing of the Moscow City Court in the criminal case against him on numerous charges, including the creation of an extremist organization, at the IK-6 penal colony in Melekhovo in the Vladimir region, Russia, August 4, 2023. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina/ File Photo

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on social media on Friday that he had been informed of new criminal charges against him.

Navalny, 47, is already serving sentences in a penal colony totalling more than 30 years on charges including extremism, which he denies, and has spent much of the last two years in solitary confinement for a range of alleged misdemeanours.