Moscow Court upholds sentence of Navalny

A Moscow Court has confirmed the sentence of 15 days in jail by Russian justice on 19, I reject the appeal filed by activist lawyer.

Voice criticism of the Kremlin, Navalny had been sentenced for distributing, considered "illegal" by leaflets in the Moscow metro. The penalty effectively prevents the Russian opposition figure to participate, to March 1, at the demonstration "anti crisis" which he himself has called for, in order to denounce the mismanagement, by the Russian authorities, the economic crisis across the country, following the fall in the price of oil and the Western sanctions related to the situation in Ukraine.

Rodrigo Barbosa | With ANSA/AFP

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