Russian opposition activist Alexey Navalni, arrested and arrested after returning home after being treated for poisoning in Germany, was sentenced to prison.
According to Rianovosty news agency, the Moscow Sinonovsky District Court ruled that the probation should be converted to imprisonment nine hours after the start of the hearing at a trial to cancel the sentence of probation against Navalni held at the Moscow City Court on the 2nd in local time.
As a result, Navalni was sentenced to three years and six months in prison under the previous probation ruling.
The execution bureau said at a trial that day, "Navalni did not appear at the supervisory agency at least six times from January to mid-August last year, and did not fulfill the obligations imposed during probation." I warned that it could be changed to."
"The important thing in this judicial proceeding is not deciding whether to imprison me or not. The important thing is to scare many people. It is to imprison one person and scare millions of people," Navalni, who appeared in court, argued in a separate remark. I did.
"I demand my immediate release and the release of other arresters. This trial is false and not legal."
In December 2014, Navalni was charged with illegal acquisition of 31 million rubles and about 590 million won in Korean money from the Russian branch of the French cosmetics company Yves Rocher. 5 in 3 years and 6 months in prison. I was sentenced to probation of years.
Navalni, who has consistently accused Russian government officials of corruption, fell down and fell into a coma while traveling from Tomsk, Siberia to Moscow in August of last year.
He stayed at Omsk Hospital in Siberia, and three days later he was transferred to a German hospital for treatment. After regaining consciousness after 18 days, he stayed in Berlin for a while and received rehabilitation.