Alexey Navalny
The British Embassy explained the arrival of diplomats to the trial in the case of Alexei Navalny (he is the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent ). RIA Novosti writes about it.
According to the diplomatic mission, her presence at trials is a common practice. The same explanation was made at the Latvian Embassy.
“This is not a unique case, as in Russia, as in other countries, diplomats can observe the court proceedings. If there was no such opportunity, foreign diplomats would not be allowed into the courtroom, and, naturally, we would have accepted it, ”the Latvian diplomatic mission said.
RIA Novosti learned that representatives of the embassies of the USA, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Sweden, Austria, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Canada, Poland and Norway also came to the trial. The Polish and Swiss embassies each sent two people to the Moscow City Court.
On February 2, a hearing is being held there to cancel Navalny's suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case and replace it with a real one. The UFSIN asks to replace the conditional sentence of 3.5 years in prison with a real one – in the colony. Navalny was charged with 60 violations of public order after a suspended sentence.
Navalny was detained on January 17, immediately after returning from Germany, where he was undergoing rehabilitation. He fell into a coma on August 20, 2020, he became ill during the flight from Tomsk to Moscow. On August 22, the Russian was taken to a German clinic, the doctors of which announced that he had been poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group. Russian doctors during the examination of the patient did not find traces of poisons.
