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A court in Russia is hearing Nablani's sentence
The opposition leader is expected to be sent to several years in prison despite mass protests against his arrest.
Outside the court in Moscow, police continued to arrest his supporters.
Sanctions are being considered in the West
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Tuesday, 02 February 2021, 11:19
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In video: Russian court discusses Navalny's sentence (Photo: Reuters)
A Russian court today (Tuesday) sentenced opposition leader Alexei Navalny to three and a half years in prison.
Navalny watched his hearing in Moscow from a glass cell in the courtroom.
He praised his wife Julia, who was at the hearing after being fined the day before after taking part in mass demonstrations demanding his release.
"They said you had seriously violated public order and you were a bad girl. I am proud of you," said Navalny, who was arrested on January 17 after returning from Germany, where he recovered from his nerve gas poisoning in Siberia.
He claims that President Vladimir Putin tried to assassinate him, but the Kremlin denied and accused Navalny of being an American "agent."
Outside the courthouse, police arrested at least 100 protesters.
On Sunday, more than 5,000 protesters were arrested across the country, the second weekend of a protest against the Kremlin, the largest in recent years.
The masses were not deterred by the bitter cold, the harsh hand of the security forces and the plague of the corona.
The United States and European countries are considering further sanctions on Russia following the repression of the opposition and the wave of arrests.
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Praised his wife.
Nabalani in court, today (Photo: Reuters)
The Moscow Prison Service accused Navalny of the conditions of his release on parole, and he asked the court to convert the sentence imposed on him after he was convicted of embezzlement into actual imprisonment.
Navalny claims the case was sewn against him for political motives.
He did not appear before the Prisons Service last year because he was recovering from his injury to Novichuk nerve gas.
He is already serving a 30-day prison sentence in the same case.
A spokesman for the Prisons Service said at the hearing that Navalny had violated public order many times since the original sentence was imposed on him and that he had not systematically reported to the service.
Navalny said he was unable to report to the Prisons Service because he was recovering in Germany, but the Prisons Service said the complaints against him preceded the poisoning and that in any case, he "felt good enough" to meet reporters after being released from a hospital in Berlin in September.
While Navalny’s arrest was the trigger for the demonstrations, some of the protesters, young and old, said they took to the streets in protest of declining quality of life and inequality between the small and wealthy elite and ordinary citizens.
The arrests continue.
A supporter of Navalny is being held by security forces outside the court today (Photo: Reuters)
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