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Media: Navalny’s suspended sentence turns into actual prison term
Alexey Navalny will spend two years and eight months in a general security penal colony for fraud against the Yves Rocher company. He was handed a suspended sentence in the case in 2014, but on February 2, Moscow’s Simonovsky District Court sentenced the opposition figurehead to an actual prison term for numerous probation violations, Izvestia writes.
The court had every reason to uphold the Federal Penitentiary Service’s request to replace Navalny’s suspended sentence with a real jail term, said lawyer Yevgeny Chernousov. A Federal Penitentiary Service official requested that the court send him to prison for 3.5 years, which does not exceed the term of his initial suspended sentence, he noted. According to the attorney, the court was unable to issue a harsher ....

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