Posted on Feb 20, 2021
Russian Court Denies Appeal Of Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny
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A court in Moscow has turned down an appeal by the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny against his prison sentence, the latest legal defeat for the man who has emerged as the Kremlin's most vocal critic.
Navalny, 44, was arrested in January after returning home from Germany, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal poisoning that he and Western governments have blamed on the Kremlin. The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied the accusation, and earlier this month sentenced Navalny to 32 months in prison, saying he had broken the terms of a probation agreement tied to a 2014 embezzlement conviction. Navalny has called that case, and others against him, politically motivated.
Navalny, 44, was arrested in January after returning home from Germany, where he had been recovering from a near-fatal poisoning that he and Western governments have blamed on the Kremlin. The government of Russian President Vladimir Putin has denied the accusation, and earlier this month sentenced Navalny to 32 months in prison, saying he had broken the terms of a probation agreement tied to a 2014 embezzlement conviction. Navalny has called that case, and others against him, politically motivated.
Russian Court Denies Appeal Of Jailed Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny
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I do not support political imprisonment, and I give Russia NO benefit of doubt. But... "politically motivated" and "unfounded or untrue" are different things. In my cynical mind, saying the case is politically motivated is akin to saying "yeah, I embezzled a little. SO what. They wouldn't have cared if I wasn't so outspoken."
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