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Prosecutors also asked to replace the one-and-a-half year probation sentence imposed on the opposition in 2014 with an actual prison sentence, as the veteran was allegedly defamed when A. Navalns was paroled.
However, a Moscow court earlier this month commuted the probation sentence imposed on Navaln in 2014 to an actual prison sentence and ordered that he be imprisoned for two years and eight months.
In the defamation case, the accusations are related to the fact that people who appeared in one of the Kremlin-sponsored videos promoting constitutional reforms, including this veteran, A. Navalnas, called the country shame and traitors last June. .
The Moscow District Court examined the final arguments on Tuesday.
Reuters / Photo by Scanpix / A. Navaln shows a sign of heart to his wife at trial
The 44-year-old anti-corruption fighter sat in a glass cage in the defendants’ courtroom, wore a blue hoodie and often smiled, an AFP reporter reported.
His lawyer, Olga Michailova, said the accusations were “fictitious and arbitrary.”
After presenting final arguments, the judge adjourned the case until February 20.
Another Moscow court had to take up the defamation case against A. Navaln on Tuesday, started by Kremlin-affiliated businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The 59-year-old businessman, nicknamed Putin’s chef because his company Concord supplied food to the Kremlin, demands that Naval pay him $ 5 million. compensation of rubles (56 thousand euros).
Later Tuesday, the court will also hear an appeal filed by A. Navalnas for 3.3 million. rubles (37,000 euros), which the Kremlin critic had to pay to a food company that filed another defamation lawsuit against him.
Navaln was jailed in January as soon as he returned from Germany to Moscow. The opposition’s arrest sparked two weekend protests across Russia demanding his release.
At least 10,000 people were arrested during the police repression of these demonstrations. people.
By Sunday, several hundred activists in central Moscow had formed a living chain, expressing their support for Navaln’s wife, Julia, and other women affected by the repression.
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