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In Moscow, a rally was held in support of Navalny
In Moscow in the Novopushkinsky square, a rally was held "in support of Navalny, political prisoners, as well as for fair justice and an independent judicial system, against its final fusion with the executive branch." About three thousand people took part in it. Many stood outside the perimeter of the square.
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Moscow rally in defense of Navalny
The first was the head of the Moscow Helsinki group Lyudmila Alekseeva. "Navalny is innocent, but still sitting down. This is our court," she said. Alekseeva also talked about the persecution of the Voice association. Yabloko leader Sergei Mitrokhin recalled the undisclosed case of Mikhail Beketov. "Our law enforcement system protects the killers and thieves," he said. “Navalny managed to arouse citizens in people,” said Eco -activist Evgenia Chirikova. Together with her, the participants chanted "Freedom Navalny!" Human rights activist Anna Karetnikova handed everyone hello to everyone from the "swamp prisoners", whom she visits in the pre -trial detention center. Near the stage there were tables with postcards for political prisoners, the rally participants signed them.
Human rights activist Lev Ponomarev read out a rally resolution demanding the resignation of the head of the TFR Alexander Bastrykin and Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika. “Over 13 years in our country, the constitutional system is destroyed. In the last year, this process has sharply intensified,” the document says. “The anti -constitutional coup should be stopped.”
On Wednesday, a trial began in Kirov in the first criminal case against Navalny - the so -called case of Kirovles. The next meeting will be held on April 24. Civil activists from Moscow and other cities came to Kirov. A rally was held near the building of the Leninsky District Court. Prochrevsky youth activists also held their action.
According to investigators, Navalny, being an adviser to the governor of the Kirov region, organized the theft of Kirovles property. To do this, he allegedly conspired with the officer and general director of Kirovles Vyacheslav Opalev. The investigation believes that from May to September 2009, more than 10 thousand cubic meters of forest products were stolen. Thus, the budget of the Kirov region caused damage in the amount of more than 16 million rubles. "Navalny was accused of organizing the embezzlement of someone else's property on an especially large scale (part 3 of Article 33, part 4 of Article 160 of the Criminal Code), officers - in combination (part 3 of Article 33, part 4 of Article 160). The maximum punishment under these articles is up to 10 years of imprisonment of up to 1 million rubles.