Russian authorities arrested opposition leader Alexey Navalny for violating his house arrest to join an anti-government protest after a court found him guilty in a fraud and money-laundering case.
Navalny condemned the trial as a government attempt to silence criticism and left his house to join thousands of people who signed up for a protest at Moscow’s Manezh square, near the Kremlin. Earlier, the court handed him a suspended sentence and condemned his brother to 3 1/2 years in prison.
“The fact that they’ve detained me means just one thing, that there will be one less person for them to arrest,” Navalny posted on his Twitter account. “I didn’t make it to Manezh, but it doesn’t mean that you can’t. They can’t detain all of us.”
“This time they’re purposefully destroying, torturing and tormenting the relatives of people who are their political opponents,” Navalny told reporters after the verdict. “I call on everyone to go to the streets until the authorities, who are grabbing and torturing innocent people, are ousted.”
Navalny is not going to win this one.
Source: Bloomberg
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