02:38Moscow's Simonovsky District Court on Tuesday ruled to revoke opposition activist Alexei Navalny's probation in connection with the 'Yves Rocher' case and replace it with a custodial sentence.
Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years in a standard regime penal colony. The court, however, gave Navalny a two-year and eight-month sentence considering his house arrest during the 2014 'Yves Rocher' investigation and detention from 17 January 2021 until the date the ruling came into force.
The opposition activist said he shouldn't serve a real sentence under the 'Yves Rocher' case as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg concluded that his actions didn't qualify as a crime and asked for his release in the courtroom.
In its decision, the Moscow court said it found the arguments of Navalny's defense related to the decision of the ECHR untenable, since, according to the court, Strasbourg did not mention the illegality of the sentence and after revising the case following a request by the ECHR, Russia's Supreme Court upheld the verdict against the Kremlin critic.
Navalny will be remanded in custody until the ruling comes into force. His lawyers intend to appeal the ruling.
The anti-corruption campaigner was taken into custody on January 17 upon his return to Russia from Germany, where he spent nearly five months recovering from an alleged Novichok nerve agent attack.
On January 18, Navalny was sentenced to 30 days in jail for breaching parole conditions of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction.
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Moscow's Simonovsky District Court on Tuesday ruled to revoke opposition activist Alexei Navalny's probation in connection with the 'Yves Rocher' case and replace it with a custodial sentence.
Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years in a standard regime penal colony. The court, however, gave Navalny a two-year and eight-month sentence considering his house arrest during the 2014 'Yves Rocher' investigation and detention from 17 January 2021 until the date the ruling came into force.
The opposition activist said he shouldn't serve a real sentence under the 'Yves Rocher' case as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg concluded that his actions didn't qualify as a crime and asked for his release in the courtroom.
In its decision, the Moscow court said it found the arguments of Navalny's defense related to the decision of the ECHR untenable, since, according to the court, Strasbourg did not mention the illegality of the sentence and after revising the case following a request by the ECHR, Russia's Supreme Court upheld the verdict against the Kremlin critic.
Navalny will be remanded in custody until the ruling comes into force. His lawyers intend to appeal the ruling.
The anti-corruption campaigner was taken into custody on January 17 upon his return to Russia from Germany, where he spent nearly five months recovering from an alleged Novichok nerve agent attack.
On January 18, Navalny was sentenced to 30 days in jail for breaching parole conditions of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction.
Moscow's Simonovsky District Court on Tuesday ruled to revoke opposition activist Alexei Navalny's probation in connection with the 'Yves Rocher' case and replace it with a custodial sentence.
Navalny was sentenced to three and a half years in a standard regime penal colony. The court, however, gave Navalny a two-year and eight-month sentence considering his house arrest during the 2014 'Yves Rocher' investigation and detention from 17 January 2021 until the date the ruling came into force.
The opposition activist said he shouldn't serve a real sentence under the 'Yves Rocher' case as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg concluded that his actions didn't qualify as a crime and asked for his release in the courtroom.
In its decision, the Moscow court said it found the arguments of Navalny's defense related to the decision of the ECHR untenable, since, according to the court, Strasbourg did not mention the illegality of the sentence and after revising the case following a request by the ECHR, Russia's Supreme Court upheld the verdict against the Kremlin critic.
Navalny will be remanded in custody until the ruling comes into force. His lawyers intend to appeal the ruling.
The anti-corruption campaigner was taken into custody on January 17 upon his return to Russia from Germany, where he spent nearly five months recovering from an alleged Novichok nerve agent attack.
On January 18, Navalny was sentenced to 30 days in jail for breaching parole conditions of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction.