Navalny, who was detained two weeks ago on his way back to Moscow from Berlin, is accused of failing to meet the conditions of his parole under a suspended sentence for embezzlement in 2014 – a case he has dismissed as politically motivated.
Prison authorities have now upheld his suspended sentence 3.5. Demanding a change with the year’s prison sentence, the move could display anti-government protests that have plagued Russia for the past few weeks.
In court, Navalny sought to know how he could better inform his whereabouts during comatose.
“Can you explain to me how to meet my probation conditions and report where I am?” He said from his glass enclosure in the counterroom.
A prison service representative asked why he had not provided documents to explain the serious reasons that led him to stop showing observations.
“Coma?” Navalni fired. “Why are you sitting here and telling the court that you don’t know where I was? I fell into a coma, then I was in the ICU, then I was in rehabilitation. I contacted my lawyer to send you a notice. Your address was, My contact details. What else can I do to let you know? “He said.
“The president of our country said in a live broadcast he lets me go to Germany for treatment and you don’t even know that?”
In a separate outrage, Navalny described Putin as “a small thief stealing his bunker” who “does not want to set foot on the ground in Russia.”
“The reason for this is the hatred and fear of a person who is hiding in the bunker. I am very upset with him for the fact that I rescued him,” Navalni alleged.
When the public prosecutor tried to raise an objection, Navalny retorted: “I don’t need your objection.”
“He may tend to say that he is this great politician, the leader of the world, but now my main crime is that he will go down in history as Putin poisoner. There was Alexander Liberator and Yaroslav Wise, and there will be Vladimir Poisoner. Underpants,” Navalny added.
“He doesn’t participate in geopolitics, he holds meetings on how to smear underwear with chemical weapons.”
CNN-BellingCut The December investigation into Navalny’s poisoning involved the Russian Security Service (FSB), how a worker and his team were dragged on a trip to Siberia by a select unit of the agency when Navalny fell ill after being exposed. Military-grade Novichok.
Navalny also fired an agent for revealing that he had been poisoned by the nerve agent Novichok applied to his underwear.
Putin himself said in December that if Russian security services had wanted to kill Navalny, they would have “finished” the job.
Mass detention
Tuesday’s hearing was opened in the presence of heavy security, with riot police guarding the court building and cordoning off the general area with police vehicles, trucks and vans. Nearby streets were open but closed to protesters with pedestrians and beavers.
CNN reporters saw dozens of people detained outside the court before the trial began.
Russian authorities repeatedly threatened to imprison Navalny if he returned to Russia from Germany. Navalny’s lawyers had earlier told CNN they had little hope of his release, and criticized the Kremlin’s control over the country’s courts.
In his defense, they argued that the prison service knew Navlaini’s whereabouts well, as he had received a notice from her in early December. His lawyers also produced a letter from Berlin’s Charity Clinic showing that he was in rehabilitation until he returned to Russia.
The hearing took place against the backdrop of widespread anti-government protests. Hundreds of thousands of Russians have flocked across the country in two straight weeks to support Navalny and demand his release. The court’s decision to jail Noulvani will probably only irritate opponents.
On Sunday, protesters across the country met with the toughest show of pressure exerted by the Russian security services over the years. According to independent monitoring group OVD-Info, more than 5,000,000 people were detained in at least 85 cities, the highest number since the 2011 protests. Navalny staged large-scale protests against Putin’s government in 2017-18.
“Yulia, they show you on TV and keep talking about your radical behavior. Such a bad girl, I’m proud of you,” Navalny said before her hearing began.
Navalni’s teammates have already vowed for a second round of nationwide demonstrations next week.
CNN’s Angela Diwan, Anna Chernova and Richard Alan Green contributed to the report.
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