Russian Detention Body Asks Court To Replace Navalny's Suspended Sentence With Jail Term

Russian Detention Body Asks Court to Replace Navalny's Suspended Sentence With Jail Term

A spokesman for the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service asked the court on Tuesday to revoke opposition figure Alexey Navalny's suspended sentence in a fraud case and replace it with a 3.5-years term in a standard regime prison, a Sputnik correspondent reported form the courtroom

MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 02nd February, 2021) A spokesman for the Russian Federal Penitentiary Service asked the court on Tuesday to revoke opposition figure Alexey Navalny's suspended sentence in a fraud case and replace it with a 3.5-years term in a standard regime prison, a Sputnik correspondent reported form the courtroom.

"I ask the court to revoke the suspended sentence for Navalny, who was sentenced by the Zamoskvoretsky [District] Court [in Moscow] to a suspended sentence of three years and six months," the detention authority spokesman said.