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Russian Prosecutors Seek Three-and-a-half-year Jail Term For Alexei Navalny
Russian prosecutors are poised to jail Alexei Navalny for three-and-a-half years, with Kremlin shrugging off US complaints ahead of court hearing on Feb 2.
Russian state prosecutors are poised to jail Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny for three-and-a-half years, according to The Guardian. Navalny was jailed after he returned from Germany on January 17 and last week, a Moscow court had rejected his appeal to be released. World leaders, including the US, had condemned Moscow’s heavy-handed tactics against peaceful protesters and journalists. Now, Kremlin has shrugged off the complaints about Navalny’s case and said that Moscow would ignore statements from US President Joe Biden administration, following Sunday’s mass pro-Navalny protests.
Bill Browder: Navalny has sparked something - the West shouldn t stand by
Bill Browder ran the Hermitage Investment Fund and was Russia s largest foreign investor. He has campaigned for justice for his lawyer Sergei Magnitsky and is considered persona non grata in Moscow. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)
Once the largest foreign investor in Russia through his Hermitage Fund, Bill Browder is now a global campaigner focussing the world’s attention on Vladimir Putin.
His efforts have seen so-called ‘Magnitsky Acts’ placed on the statute book across the world, named after Browder’s former lawyer – who, most agree, was murdered in Russian custody as he attempted to expose a huge tax fraud against the Russian people.
In a fresh setback to former US President Donald Trump, five of his impeachment defence lawyers have stepped aside over disagreements on legal strategy. Trump's trial in Senate is just a week away. Meanwhile, Kremlin-critic Alexei Navalny's aides have planned for fresh nationwide protests in Russia. Read this and more in our Morning News Brief.
Trump's impeachment defence attorneys leave team a week before Senate trial
Police detained over 1,000 people across Russia on Saturday and used force to break up rallies around the country as tens of thousands of protesters demanded the release of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, whose wife was among those detained.
Border Police arrest a settler in the northern West Bank on suspicion of assaulting an IDF soldier.
A police statement says officers were called to the Givat Ronen outpost after reports of rock-throwing. The officers used riot control means to disperse settlers throwing rocks, one of whom police say shoved a soldier at the scene.
The suspect, a 24-year-old Givat Ronen resident, was searched and found to be carrying a pistol, according to the statement.
Police also say that rocks were thrown at a police cruiser that came to pick up the suspect, breaking its windows.
שוטרי מג ב עצרו היום תושב גבעת רונן בן 24 בחשד ליידוי אבנים ולדחיפת חייל. השוטרים מספרים שכשהגיעו לעצור אותו נרגמו גם הם באבנים pic.twitter.com/Im23i19bov