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Jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny loses his legal appeal against a nine-year prison sentence that he and his allies condemned as politically motivated. His sentencing comes as Moscow pushes on with its military offensive in neighbouring Ukraine and Russian authorities seek to silence remaining government critics. IMAGES
Moscow (Russia), Feb 20 (EFE/EPA) - (Camera: Yury Kochetkov) The Moscow Court on Saturday rejected the appeal of the 3.5 years in prison to which Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalni was sentenced in 2014, in a trial described as "arbitrary" by the European Court of Human Rights.FOOTAGE OF ALEXEY NAVALNY'S LAWYERS, VADIM KOBZEV AND OLGA MIKHAILOVA, APPEARING BEFORE THE MEDIA IN FRONT OF THE BABUSHKINSKY DISTRICT COURT IN MOSCOW.
A Moscow appeal court has upheld a prison sentence imposed on chief Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny after he returned to Russia from Germany last month. Judge Dmitry Balashov rejected Navalny's appeal of the February 2 ruling, which turned a 2014 suspended sentence on embezzlement charges into real jail time. IMAGES
A Moscow court throws out jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's appeal against a nine-year prison sentence that he and his allies condemn as politically motivated. Moscow City Court ruled to "leave the sentence without changes" and for it to enter into force immediately, meaning that Navalny will be transferred to a strict regime prison colony to serve out his term, after he was found guilty in March of embezzlement and contempt of court. IMAGES
Moscow, Aug 16 (EFE / EPA) .- (Camera: Maxim Shipenkov) A Moscow court on Friday sentenced Kira Yarmysh, spokeswoman for Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, to a year and a half of probation for "inciting to violate" the sanitary restrictions of the Covid-19 during the opposition demonstrations that shook Russia at the beginning of the year.FOOTAGE OF KIRA YARMYSH AT THE DISCTRICT COURT IN PREOBRAZHENSKY IN MOSCOW.