Russian opposition leader Navalni was sentenced to imprisonment in appeal

[아시아경제 박병희 기자] On the 20th (local time), the court of appeals in Moscow, Russia, dismissed the appeals trial raised by opposition activist Alexey Navalni for converting her probation to imprisonment.

According to the TASS news agency, the Moscow City Court said that the ruling was retained, saying that it recognized the validity of the first trial ruling that sentenced Navalni to revocation of probation and conversion to imprisonment in the appeal trial held that day.

The court served only for this period, taking into account the fact that he was under house arrest from December 30, 2014 to February 18, 2015, when the judicial proceedings were in connection with the 2014 Navalni fraud case, which was a matter of appeal. I ordered it to be removed from the period.

Navalni was charged with illegal acquisition of 31 million rubles (approximately 590 million won) from the Russian branch of the French cosmetics company Yv Rocher in December 2014, and was sentenced to three years and six months in prison and five years probation. received.

The Moscow Simonovsky District Court ruled earlier on the 2nd that the probation should be converted to imprisonment in a trial to cancel the sentence of probation against Navalni in connection with the fraud case.

Navalni and the lawyers appealed against the judgment of the first trial, and an appeal trial was held on that day.

Navalni will be served for about two years and six months if his period of house arrest is removed from his service period.

Earlier on the 17th, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) requested immediate release due to the threat to Navalni’s life.

Navalni’s lawyers said they would appeal, saying they could not accept the second trial ruling.

Meanwhile, a fourth sentence was also held in the same court on the same day that Navalni’s charges of defamation of veterans of World War II veterans were held last year. Navalni was also convicted in this trial and was sentenced to a fine of 850,000 rubles (about 13 million won).

Navalni was convicted of defaming honor by slandering and slandering a veteran who fought in World War II in June of last year and made a triumph.

He uploaded a video of a reserve colonel, Ignat Artemenko, 93, who supported a constitutional amendment that allowed President Vladimir Putin to take office for a long time at the time, to his social network service (SNS) accounts. At the same time, he posted an article accusing him of supporting the constitutional amendment as’a purchased servant’,’a man without conscience’, and’a traitor’.

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