The Simonovsky Court in Moscow witnessed the arrival of Western diplomats attending the trial session of Alexei Navalny.
A Sputnik correspondent reported today, Saturday, that many foreign diplomats arrived at the Moscow court to attend the trial session concerning the blogger and opposition figure Alexei Navalny. The correspondent noted that ambassadors from several European countries were present, including diplomats from Finland, Sweden, Poland, and Lithuania. The agency observed vehicles belonging to diplomatic missions parked near the mentioned court, and the diplomats refrained from commenting while entering the court.
It is worth mentioning that opposition figure Alexei Navalny is being tried today in two sessions with different cases. On February 2, 2021, the Simonovsky Court in Moscow sentenced Navalny to three and a half years in prison for violating the terms of a previous ruling against him in 2014, from which the months he spent under house arrest that year would be deducted, resulting in Navalny serving two years and eight months in prison.
On February 2, a court in Moscow sentenced Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny to three and a half years of actual imprisonment in a fraud case for which he previously received a suspended sentence. RT reported that the ruling came at the request of the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service, which confirmed that Navalny had repeatedly and systematically violated the terms of his suspended sentence even before he was transferred to a hospital in Germany last summer, without providing any convincing excuses. The channel added that a representative from the penal system pointed out that Navalny violated public order nearly 60 times since the suspended ruling was issued about six years ago.
