Yesterday, Navalny’s lawyers filed an official appeal with the Moscow Regional Court.
Alexei Navalny was deprived of his freedom under a statute that simply does not apply to him (or to any other person serving a suspended sentence, for that matter). Any lawyer understands this, any judge understands this, and really anyone who opens the Criminal Procedure Code can see it. But the Khimki City Court simply ignored that and rubber-stamped a piece of paper sending Navalny to Matrosskaya Tishina (a well-known Moscow pretrial detention center) for a month. This happened at an off-site hearing held in the assembly hall of the Khimki police station. Beneath a portrait of Genrikh Yagoda (a Stalin-era Soviet security chief).
We are publishing the appeal in full so that everyone can study it, and so that this document remains on the record for history. It will surely be added to a case file later—only not Alexei’s, but that of the corrupt Khimki judge and her superiors.