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Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny Ridicules Claim He Failed To Meet Parole Terms — While He Was In Coma After Nerve-Agent Poisoning

Moscow court sentences opposition leader to prison for more than 2 1/2 years

Joseph Curl
Kremlin Critic Alexei Navalny Ridicules Claim He Failed To Meet Parole Terms — While He Was In Coma After Nerve-Agent Poisoning
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A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years on charges that he violated the terms of his probation — while he was in a coma from nerve-agent poisoning he says was perpetrated by the Russian Security Service.

Navalny, 44, was detained two weeks ago after he returned to Moscow from Berlin. In court, a judge ruled Navalny violated his term of five years of probation, ordered a former 3.5-year suspended sentence to be replaced with a prison term, then took off 11 months Navalny already spent under house arrest.

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