Alexey Navalny
The United States expressed its decision to send Alexei Navalny to the colony (he is the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent) in the Yves Rocher case. The corresponding statement was published on the website of the State Department.
The trial was considered “an attempt to suppress political pluralism.” The text also says that the United States is deeply concerned about the decision of the Russian authorities.
“We reiterate our call on the Russian authorities to immediately and without preconditions release Mr. Navalny, as well as hundreds of other Russian citizens illegally detained in recent weeks for exercising their rights, including the right to freedom of expression and peaceful assembly,” in the statement.
Earlier, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow replaced Alexey Navalny's suspended sentence with a real one. Navalny was sentenced to 3.5 years in a general regime colony. However, he will spend 2 years and 8 months in the colony, taking into account the year spent under house arrest during the preliminary investigation in the Yves Rocher case.
On Tuesday, February 2, a hearing was held in the Moscow City Court to cancel the suspended sentence in the Yves Rocher case and replace it with the real one Navalny. The UFSIN asked to appoint him a sentence of imprisonment in a colony for a period of 3.5 years. Navalny was charged with 60 violations of public order after a suspended sentence.
About 20 employees of the embassies of foreign states, including the USA, Bulgaria, Poland, Latvia, Austria, Switzerland, arrived at the court session.
Navalny was detained on January 17 at the Moscow Sheremetyevo airport upon his return from Germany. According to him, he was treated in Berlin for poisoning. Navalny fell into a coma on August 20, he became ill during the flight from Tomsk to Moscow. On August 22, he was taken to a German clinic, whose doctors announced that the Russian was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group. Russian doctors found no traces of the poison.
