Just now, Justice of the Peace Anna Nekryach found Alexei Navalny guilty of a criminal offense under Article 128.1 of the Russian Criminal Code and sentenced him to a fine of 300,000 rubles.
This was the obvious outcome to expect from this astonishingly absurd trial.
This is what justice looks like in Russia.
Apparently, this is neither libel nor insult, and no one is punished for it:
And this, apparently, is not libel either:
But for our courts, Navalny is a libeler, and that requires no evidence at all.
It is clear what all this is for. Part 4 of Article 74 of the Russian Criminal Code states: If a person given a suspended sentence commits, during the probation period, a crime through negligence or an intentional minor or medium-gravity offense, the court decides whether to revoke or uphold the suspended sentence.
Accordingly, the court will now be required to consider replacing Alexei's existing five-year suspended sentence with a real five-year term in a general-regime penal colony.
We remind you that today documents were published fully proving the illegality of the criminal prosecution of Alexei and Oleg Navalny in the "Yves Rocher case", which will begin to be heard on Thursday at Moscow's Zamoskvoretsky District Court. We would be grateful for your help in spreading this information.