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Prosecutors also asked to replace the one-and-a-half year suspended sentence imposed on the opposition in 2014 with a real custodial sentence, as the veteran was allegedly defamed when A. Navalnas was released on parole.
However, a Moscow court had earlier commuted the probation sentence imposed on Navalns in 2014 to an actual prison sentence and ordered that he be imprisoned for two years and eight months.
In the defamation case, the allegations relate to the fact that in a video promoting Kremlin-backed constitutional reforms, people, including this veteran, A. Navalnas, called the country shameful and traitorous last June.
The Moscow District Court examined the final arguments on Tuesday.
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 Navaln on Tuesday, initiated by Kremlin-affiliated businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin.
The 59-year-old businessman, known as Putin’s chef because his Concord company supplied the Kremlin with food, demands that Navaln pay him $ 5 million. compensation of rubles (56 thousand euros).
Later on Tuesday, the court will also hear an appeal filed by A. Navalno against the 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 crackdown.
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