February 03, 2021 12:17 am
The three-year and five-month sentence has been reduced as the 44-year-old has already served a year under house arrest for the Yves Rocher case. The opposition’s staff had incited immediate agitation
The charge against Navalny is that he violated the terms of probation while on treatment in Germany after being poisoned with the nerve agent Novichock, for an alleged corruption case dating back to 2014. As the 44-year-old already after ten months under house arrest, he will have to serve 2 years and 8 months in prison.
Navalny staff calls for an immediate protest in Moscow In response to the sentencing, Navalny’s team calls for an “immediate protest in Moscow”. “Come immediately to Piazza del Maneggio! Our country has fallen into complete illegality, we must oppose it”, reads a tweet posted by the Anti-corruption Fund.
Britain calls for immediate release Meanwhile, a request has also been made by the British government of Boris Johnson for the “immediate and unconditional release” of Navalny. In a message signed by Foreign Minister Dominic Raab, London also calls for the release of “all peaceful demonstrators and journalists” arrested in Russia in recent weeks. “Today’s perverse verdict – writes Raab – targets the victim of poisoning instead of those responsible and shows how Russia fails to respect even the most basic commitments required of any responsible member of the international community”.
The USA: we will coordinate with the allies on the response to Russia To evaluate the ways in which to hold Russia accountable for what is happening with the Navalny case, the United States will coordinate with its allies. US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said this also referring to the thousands of arrests in recent days.
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