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02 February 2021Alexei Navalny was sentenced to 3 years and 5 months in prison by a judge of the Simonovsky District Court, who met for the occasion at the Moscow City Court.
Navalny was sentenced to serve the period of prison imposed on him in the "Yves Rocher" case in a penal colony, that is to say 3 and a half years in prison for systematically violating the terms of parole.
Given that Navalny, in the framework of the 2014 Yves Rocher case, had already spent around ten months under house arrest, the period he will spend in prison is two years and eight months.
The sentence was handed down by the Simonovsky District Court of Moscow.
The court therefore replaced the house arrest sentence for the opponent with a real sentence to be served in prison.
Meanwhile, in central Moscow under siege by police, the entrance to Red Square has been closed.
After the sentence was read, his allies asked to protest in the streets against the sentence.
While awaiting the verdict in the Moscow city court on the incarceration of Aleksei Navalny, in anticipation of possible protests, the authorities closed the entrance to Red Square.
Radio Eco of Moscow reports the presence of "many police cars and men of the police".
During the day, at least 325 detentions were made in the Russian capital in the court area where Navalny's supporters met, who asked to take to the streets again tonight in view of the sentence.
"I did not hide. And I participated in the investigation into my own poisoning. And we proved that it was Putin who committed the attack and this drives him mad. He will go down in history just like a poisoner", Alexey Navalny had declared in the courtroom. , during the judicial proceedings involving him, adding: "I ask for immediate release for me and for all political prisoners: this theater is illegal".