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Wednesday, 03 February 2021_A court in Russia has sentenced opposition figure Alexei Navalny to three and a half years in prison for breaking the terms of a suspended sentence he had received seven years ago for an embezzlement case.
The Moscow City Court ruled on Tuesday that Navalny had violated the terms of the 2014 suspended sentence when he was airlifted to Germany for treatment in August last year.
The judge, however, subtracted the 10 months Navalny had spent under house arrest from the recent prison sentence.
The opposition figure would in fact serve two years and eight months in prison, his lawyer said, adding that they would appeal against the ruling.
Navalny fell into a coma while aboard a domestic flight from Siberia to Moscow in August last year. His associates and the West immediately accused Moscow of having poisoned him with a nerve agent and took him to a hospital in Berlin for treatment.
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