A Moscow court sent Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny to prison for more than two and a half years on Tuesday, prompting protests across the country. The ruling closed a heated hearing in which the Kremlin critic ridiculed claims he broke his parole conditions while recovering from poisoning, and denounced President Vladimir Putin as "Putin the poisoner."
Navalny was first detained two weeks ago upon his return to Moscow from Berlin, where he spent several months recovering from poisoning with nerve agent Novichok — an attack he blames on Russian security services and on Putin himself,
The court on Tuesday ruled that while Navalny was in Germany, he violated probation terms from a 2014 case in which he had received a suspended sentence of three and a half years.
That suspended sentence will now be replaced with a prison term. The judge took into account the 11 months Navalny had already spent under house arrest as part of the decision.
He will appeal the verdict, according to his lawyer Olga Mikhailova. Speaking outside the courthouse after the sentencing, she said Navalny took the verdict "bravely as usual."
The verdict sparked swift condemnation abroad. US Secretary of State Tony Blinken called on the Russian government to "immediately and unconditionally release" Navalny. The UK, Germany, France and others issued similar statements.
It also inflamed anger among Navalny's supporters, who took to the streets in vast crowds on Tuesday night.
In central Moscow, protesters calling for his release were met with a show of force from authorities, as hundreds of riot police combed the vicinity of the courthouse street by street and forced individuals into waiting buses.
More than 1,000 people have been detained across Russia, according to independent monitoring organization OVD-Info.
Navalny's team later posted a message to Telegram thanking supporters and urging them to go home. "Putin failed to kill Alexey Navalny – and therefore decided to put him in jail for 2 years and 8 months. We will never tolerate a government that kills opponents and imprisons innocent people," it read.
"We will definitely take to the streets of the city again. For now just get carefully to the nearest metro station."
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Russia needs to be punished for their crimes against their own citizens
@Abby Gayle Which was….NONE!
Let’s start by imposing sanctions on Putin and his Russian oligarch friends.
Lots of brainwashed people here.
Lmao your falling for it
You’re right, But if you’re an American citizen you really lost your ability to say or do anything about someone else’s country.
Im surprised he’s still alive.
Still
It’d look bad on Putin and create more chaos.
india’s vaccine kills people, india already cannot afford toilets, how can they afford vaccines?🤣🤣🤣🤣 india is so poor and weak, people there eat dirt and drink mud water
i woud guess he has something on putin.. bit like wat putin had on the nappie man…
@James Harden Navalniy’s 17K supporters will start a civil war? 😁 😆 😅 😂 🤣
god, this is refreshing.
https://youtu.be/c23r2XNcLOQx
Biden was killed https://youtu.be/TdRUNQMm17I omg!-:!
Putin is losing control.
yep, they are. and this one will be fun to see fall, and the people be liberated.
@Sher B they are CRAZY.
@Old School Original Game Dogs Russians were never free and they never will be. Not everyone lives in a god damn haven.
Do you North Americans really think that Russia will become a mess like you? you are underestimating putin
Doesn’t look like it lol
Using heavily armoured unidentified “police” to beat democratic protesters is totally unacceptable, so thank god Trump has gone and hopefully can’t do it again
https://youtu.be/c23r2XNcLOQrr
God damnit Paul.
Video message:
https://youtu.be/t-JgoNtWcuQ
“We, who were detained on January 31 at a peaceful protest, ask for help and attention from the public to the inhuman conditions in which we are forced to be. More than 40 hours have passed since our arrest, and we are still being tortured. We were practically not fed. For the last 9 hours we have been on the bus, people have to stand. We are deprived of the ability to move, we have no water, we are not taken to the toilet. Here, at the detention center for foreign citizens in the village of Sakharovo, there are the same conditions in dozens of cars with detainees. We demand that the HRC, the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate and the Prosecutor General’s Office immediately stop this bullying.
We ask the free media to distribute this appeal.
Recording time – 6 a.m. February 2nd”
https://youtu.be/t-JgoNtWcuQ
Video message from the detainees (arrested) who have been in one of the paddy wagons for more than 40 hours.
Sick political leaders need sick ways to control people
Your sniffer in chief, 10% Joey has the National Guard ready to shoot to kill.
Time to start imposing sanctions on Putin and his Russian oligarch friends.
@jdnb86 Why does your Sniffer in Chief, 10% Joey have the National Guard ready to shoot to kill Americans? We don’t see any soldiers and barbed wire around the Kremlin.
@kelperdude – there are no actual separate countries. The “leaders” are all puppets. *All* wars are orchestrated by the controllers.
@Super 8 Completely the opposite of what you said is true. Russia doesn’t censor comments and delete accounts. There are no soldiers and barbed wire around the Kremlin. Putin doesn’t sign 40 decrees in 10 days.
@Super 8 Is the barbed wire and National Guard in DC a “conspiracy theory”? 3rd World Dictators look more legitimate after their elections.
@Bill H – Do you think CNN tells you the truth?
Tsar Vladamir the First has been living like a king for too long. The Russian people have overthrown monarchial rule before. They can do it again.
@Alexandra Daniele Some of us aren’t paid to have opinions because we use our brains. Sorry you can’t say the same for yourself.
@Al 72 American hero and an enemy to Russia lol. So we come to an agreement?
@Al 72 Everyone….literally EVERYONE disagrees with that…well other then you low life Kremlin trolls that is, obviously!
@Al 72 big lies as propaganda technique dont work with me
Ah sh*t here we go again
Maybe we could trade a few insurrectionists for him.
Video message:
https://youtu.be/t-JgoNtWcuQ
“We, who were detained on January 31 at a peaceful protest, ask for help and attention from the public to the inhuman conditions in which we are forced to be. More than 40 hours have passed since our arrest, and we are still being tortured. We were practically not fed. For the last 9 hours we have been on the bus, people have to stand. We are deprived of the ability to move, we have no water, we are not taken to the toilet. Here, at the detention center for foreign citizens in the village of Sakharovo, there are the same conditions in dozens of cars with detainees. We demand that the HRC, the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate and the Prosecutor General’s Office immediately stop this bullying.
We ask the free media to distribute this appeal.
Recording time – 6 a.m. February 2nd”
https://youtu.be/t-JgoNtWcuQ
Video message from the detainees (arrested) who have been in one of the paddy wagons for more than 40 hours.
https://youtu.be/a9rlfn9mDmM
Free Assange.
Yes you can.
Navralny needs to publicly admit to being US agent and he can be exchanged.
You mean the registered Democrats who played Halloween and took selfies inside the Capitol? What would Putin want with them?
Does Mikhail Gorbachev ever comment on things anymore ?
Yes, he is still alive ! turns 90 soon.
Biden was killed https://youtu.be/TdRUNQMm17I omg!-:!!
https://youtu.be/a9rlfn9mDmM
He wants to stay out of prison. He know who Putin is.
Ex Communist that suddenly built a church and porn room in his palace.
Disguasting autocrat
He doesn’t like the taste of poison.
He is still looking for the ring. “My precious…”
If Trump was still president: “Putin strongly denied and he had nothing to do with it. And I agreed.”
@OldieBones Don’t click, don’t even give him attention.
And now we got a president that sucks China’s and Iran stick I feel so much better especially after we got the Russian virus no I’m sorry it’s called the China virus that’s right I wonder why how that got here LOL yeah it was an accident because they bet bit a Pangolin two blocks from the Wuhan Labs that dr. Fauci and Bill Gates have so much invested in what are they think we’re really that fucking stupid or what
@Billy Pardew you’re nuts
Just Google the Wuhan labs dr. Fauci and Bill Gates and see what you come up with
Exactly.
Of course Putin tricked them into staying in Power for his lifetime and that’s what Trump just tried to do!
@String Bean biden is controlled by china let that sink in
@Douglas Santet That’s what Trollfare warriors want people to believe despite his behavior saying otherwise.
@Douglas Santet Doug, geez, I think you’re speaking with an authority you don’t possess.
Gfis that
https://youtu.be/qUAmAES-2o0
oh good
@Synchro Tripp Can you make your word salad, make sense?
Trump is gone now, 10% Joey is your sniffer in chief, now. Try to keep up.
It’s scary the similarities to how Russia is handling protesters and how protesters were handled in Trump’s America to where even reporters just standing there holding cameras were abused.
Oh yeah, it’s not like 33+ people were killed during the riots (not the peaceful protests, mind you). The crazy thing is, I bring up the black Americans killed during the riots and I get called a white supremacist.
BLM is nominated for a Nobel “Peace” Prize despite the BLM protesters that killed Secoriea Taylor for the simple reason her mom drove down a road that was illegally blocked by the BLM protesters. Not to mention, billions in damages.
@Cookie Boo
Can you give examples of him trying to “emulate” Putin?
@Jock Young
Hate? There were 33+ black Americans killed last year during the riots that the Democrats ignored until they could ignore it no longer
@Cookie Boo “Trump admired Putin and tried to emulate his authoritarian, strongman tactics.” You mean like signing 40 decrees on his first 10 days in office, …oh wait, that was Biden.
@Chiller 10% Joe Sniffy is consistently acting on issues with Christian based values?! Hahahahaha 😁 😆 😅 🤣 Thanks for the laughs! 😂
Wow! It’s nice to have a President who sees Putin as threat and not a girlfriend.
@Ramsey Absessien I know that happened. Thats not good but now its about
FREE NAVALNY
@Ramsey Absessien are you talking about Trump.
He is gone 👍
Putin Weaksauce
@S L I am talking about Biden. The police are still harassing and still killing black people here. He needs to leave Russia and focus in America.
@Ramsey Absessien So after few weeks you expect everything to change.
WOW
Trump had 4 years to destroy. Takes time to heal and change that. Also belive you are not black.
Sounds more like white supremacy the way you talk 🙃
Pray for navalny 🙏. He is not that guy, who needs to be in a prison, that guy is Putin.
@Sniff Sniff Joe Afternoon trolls. How’s your master Putin doing today. Must not be great if he’s got his serf army working overtime on the western comment sections….Go get a real job, loser lol
@Brandon Higdon I guess the truth hit a nerve 😂
Gfis that
https://youtu.be/qUAmAES-2o0
oh good
I pray for the Russian citizens and navalny,and that navalny opens his heart to God.he is a non-believer.
Putin and Trump for prison.
Trump wanted to BE Putin.
Thankfully he failed at this.
As he does at ALL things.
Navalny condemned banning Trump from Twitter according to AP.
@R G because he believes in free-speech.
@Гинсбрукский синдром When did Putin start a war in the center of Europe? …and Joey Biden and Hillary Clinton are the most openly corrupt politicians, but that doesn’t bother you. If this is the sort of politicians you want in Russia, things are only going to be worse than Putin.
Look at that, countries banding together for what is right and civil.
Tell that to Julian Assange.
All the Colonial Powers of West Europe you mean?
Yes they always gang up on Russia, what else is new?
@Bram J preach
3.5 years is not that long.
Lol the rest of the world calls on the US to release all the wrongly arrested black people.
Russians need to get rid of Putin. He’s irrelevant but doesn’t know it yet.
Gfis that
https://youtu.be/qUAmAES-2o0
oh good
@Hayden Lassalle no
@Hai Lpoai 😂🤣🤣 fishing
@Hai Lpoai FREE NAVALNY
@Hayden Lassalle lmao hope you are joking. I’m from Russia and he is terrible. Can’t wait we get rid of him.
Wth, “political disagreements is never a crime”? Even when it results in sedition and murder?
Biden should worry about own crazy Right Wingers in US and not worry about other countries internal problems!