A Moscow court rules on Navaln’s imprisonment: streets are closed, arrests have begun



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Oliver Carroll, a journalist for The Independent, writes about this on Twitter.

A Projekt correspondent announces that police officers have loaded six people onto a bus right in front of him at the Preobraženskaja ploščiad metro station. According to officials, a total of 23 people have already been arrested.

A. Navalnas, who was planted in the courtroom in the so-called aquarium, addressed his wife: “Julia, I saw you on my camera on television. He said you broke the order. What a bad girl, I’m so proud of you. “

The judge asked A. Navalnas to introduce himself, the Medusa correspondent announces from the courtroom. An opposition figure said that she was not required to do so because she had not yet come forward: “I don’t know who you are. Are you Judge Okuneva or someone else?

The judge replied, “I am Judge Repnikova.” Medusa recalls that the judge in the A. Navaln case was changed at the last minute.

On February 2, the Simonovsky District Court began to hear a request from the Federal Penitentiary Service. Due to the large number of journalists, the external hearing is held at the Moscow Municipal Court. Three hours before the hearing, a line of police buses was already stopped next to the courthouse and the police closed the nearest streets.

AFP journalists saw riot police arresting several people, and an independent monitoring group, OVD Info, said 24 people had been arrested after Navaln’s colleagues urged their supporters to go to court.

Reinforced police and National Guard forces are on duty near the building. Only accredited journalists, participants in the proceedings and embassy cars can enter the court.

The surrounding courtyards are also locked, and the police only allow people who live there to enter.

The Simonovsky District Court in Moscow will consider a request from the capital board of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) to replace Navaln’s probation with an actual prison sentence for failing to comply with his court order at a disclosure hearing in the Moscow Municipal Court on Tuesday.

The 44-year-old opponent has been charged with violating the terms of a probation sentence imposed in 2014 for failing to register with the FSIN twice a month while in Germany, where he was being treated for his nerve-paralyzing substance Novičiok after its poisoning. last summer.

Police arrested Navalna, 44, at one of Moscow’s airports on January 17, less than an hour after the opposition returned to Russia from Germany, where he was being treated for a nerve paralyzing substance after the poisoning last summer.

A critic of the Kremlin claims that the Federal Security Service (FSB) tried to poison him on Putin’s instructions. The Kremlin denies any connection to the incident.

Navalns faces prison sentences in several criminal cases, despite calls from western states for his release.

Navaln’s team is urging supporters to meet in court on Tuesday to show their support for the opposition.

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