Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni appeared in a court in the Babuskinsky district of Moscow for a trial on charges of defaming a veteran who fought in World War II on the 5th, and was in a glass room installed inside the court. Waiting. Moscow = Reuters Yonhap News
Russia has decided to keep the opposition leader Alexei Navalni, 44, in jail, the largest political opponent of President Vladimir Putin. In the appeal trial, the sentence of imprisonment issued during the first trial was maintained.
According to foreign media on the 20th (local time), the Moscow City Court preserved the ruling as it was, saying that it recognized the validity of the first trial ruling that canceled the probation of imprisonment sentenced to Navalni at the court of appeals trial held at the court in the city’s Babuskinsky District. Said that. However, taking into account that Navalni was under house arrest from December 30, 2014, when the judicial proceedings were in progress, to February 18 of the following year, he ordered that this period be subtracted from his prison term. As a result, Navalni’s period of service was further shortened from two years and eight months, which were initially charged for investigation, trial, and house pension, to two years and six months.
Earlier, in December 2014, 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, and was sentenced to five years in prison for three years and six months. Have been sentenced to However, on the 2nd of this month, a court in Moscow’s Simonovsky district ordered that the probation be converted to imprisonment, and Navalni was immediately imprisoned for failing to comply with the conditions of the probation ruling in this case. Since then, large-scale protests have continued, urging the government to stop political repression and release Navalni. On the 17th, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) also demanded that Navalni’s life be threatened and immediately release him.
Navalni, who appeared in court on that day, said in his final statement, “Power lies in truth. Russia is now based on injustice, but tens of millions of people want to find the truth. “Someday they will get it.” The lawyers said they would appeal, saying they could not accept the second trial decision.
This is not the only sin of Navalni that the court admits. On the same day, the court held a fourth sentence on charges of defamation of a veteran veteran of World War II that occurred last year, and Navalni was sentenced to a fine of 850,000 rubles (about 13 million won) as he was convicted. Was put on.
In June of last year, Navalni pulled a video of the appearance of the retired colonel Ignat Artemenko (93) from the Second World War, who supported the amendment of the constitution that allowed President Putin to stay in office for a long time, to his social network service (SNS) accounts, and then’bought him. He slandered with expressions such as’servant’,’person without conscience’, and’traitor’.
Navalni, who had been continuously accused of corruption and corruption by high-ranking Russian government officials, including President Putin, collapsed on a domestic airliner in August of last year and was transferred to a hospital in Berlin, Germany.After receiving treatment, Navalni returned to Korea on the 17th of last month, but was arrested and arrested at the airport.
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