RUSSIA: Several Alexei Navalny's supporters arrested in Kirov following guilty verdict

Record ID: 860774

  • Title: RUSSIA: Several Alexei Navalny's supporters arrested in Kirov following guilty verdict
  • Date: 18th July 2013
  • Summary: KIROV, RUSSIA (JULY 18, 2013) (REUTERS) STAND-OFF BETWEEN SUPPORTERS OF ALEXEI NAVALNY AND POLICE, CROWD CHANTING IN RUSSIAN 'FREEDOM TO ALEXEI NAVALNY!' POLICE ARRESTING NAVALNY'S SUPPORTER AS CROWD CHANT IN RUSSIAN 'ONE FOR ALL, AND ALL FOR ONE!' POLICE PUT ARRESTED SUPPORTER TO GROUND AS HE SHOUTS IN RUSSIAN 'FASCISTS!' VARIOUS OF POLICE BRINGING ARRESTED NAVALNY'S SUPPORTER TO POLICE VEHICLE AS HE SHOUTS IN RUSSIAN 'FASCISTS!' POLICE AND NAVALNY'S SUPPORTERS POLICE CAR HONKING
  • Embargoed: 2nd August 2013 13:00
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  • Location: Russian Federation
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  • Country: Russia
  • Topics: Politics
  • Reuters ID: LVA581NIBBHAF8C081SCFZSRHQ10
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  • Story Text: At least two supporters of convicted Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were arrested in Kirov following a five-year prison sentence for their leader on Thursday (July 18).
    Navalny was sentenced to five years in jail for theft on Thursday, an unexpectedly tough punishment which supporters said proved President Vladimir Putin was a dictator ruling by repression.
    Navalny, an anti-corruption campaigner who led the biggest protests against Putin since he took power in 2000, hugged his wife Yulia and his mother, shook his father's hand and then passed them his watch before being led him away in handcuffs.
    "Shame! Disgrace!" protesters chanted outside the court in Kirov, about 900 km (550 miles) northeast of Moscow. Some of his supporters burst into tears and other opposition activists could barely hide their shock and anger.
    Some of the supporters followed Navalny to a detention centre in Kirov where small scuffles erupted. At least two supporters were arrested following scuffles.
    Navalny is the most prominent opposition leader to be tried in Russia since Soviet times.
    It is also the biggest trial in Russia since the jailing of oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2005 on tax evasion and fraud charges after he fell out with Putin.
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