The court sent Alexei Navalny into custody for 30 days

The Khimki City Court of the Moscow Region took Alexei Navalny into custody. The Ministry of Internal Affairs demanded that a preventive measure be imposed in the form of detention for 30 days until the issue of replacing the suspended sentence with a real one in the Yves Rocher case is decided, although the meeting should take place on January 29. Lawyer Vadim Kobzev talks about this.

reports The trial took place in the building of the second police department in the city of Khimki, where Navalny went after his arrest in Sheremetyevo on January 17. The opposition politician spent the night in the OP. The lawyers were only allowed into the police around noon on January 18th.

Navalny's lawyer Vadim Kobzev was notified of the trial itself a few minutes after the start of the hearing, he tweeted:

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Half an hour after the official start of the meeting, Yarmysh video showed Navalny saying that he was taken out of the cell, supposedly to meet with lawyers, but in reality was brought to the assembly hall of the OP, where the judge, the prosecutor and several other people, including those with cameras, were already present . Among those filming the politician were journalists from the Rossiya channel and Live Shot, who, apparently, learned about the meeting before the lawyers. At the same time, the police gave accreditation and allowed Grani journalist Andrei Novichkov to enter the building with the words “we are not a court, but the police.”

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Kommersant correspondent Roman Dorofeev poster on a pole next to the OP:

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According to a statement from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the meeting was held in police custody due to the lack of coronavirus test results after Navalny’s arrival. “In order to ensure sanitary and epidemiological safety, access to the premises where the court hearing is taking place is limited,” representatives of the ministry. The Khimki City Court has another version of the need for an on-site hearing: supposedly to ensure access for journalists. During the trial, Navalny asked the judge, who called the process “open and transparent,” to let media workers waiting outside into the building, but the judge ignored the politician’s words.

clarified, cited the Detention of Navalny on the eve of the FSIN trial as follows: “On January 17, at Sheremetyevo airport, employees of the search department of the operational department of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Moscow detained Alexey Navalny, sentenced to a suspended sentence, who had been wanted since December 29, 2020 for multiple violations of his probation. The further measure of restraint against Navalny A.A. will be determined by the court. He will remain in custody until the court’s decision.”

commented Alexei Navalny will be kept in custody in pre-trial detention center No. 12 in Zelenograd. Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Committee, told Dozhd about this.

18:00 said “He will be taken to pre-trial detention center No. 12 in Zelenograd. Although this is very strange, because the only pre-trial detention center that accepts new prisoners is pre-trial detention center No. 7 in Kapotnya. I don’t know why it was decided to go to Zelenograd. Perhaps because it is further away from other detention centers,” Dozhd reports the words of the human rights activist.

Navalny’s press secretary Kira Yarmysh tweeted that the politician was sent to pre-trial detention center-1 “Matrosskaya Tishina”.

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FBK director Ivan Zhdanov on his Facebook page published the text of the court ruling that sent Alexei Navalny under arrest:

January 19 8:45 Navalny is being held in federal pre-trial detention center No. 1 by Alexei Melnikov, a member of the Moscow Public Monitoring Committee.

19:30 reported This pre-trial detention center is located on the territory of pre-trial detention center No. 1 of Moscow “Matrosskaya Tishina”, however administratively these are different institutions.

• On January 11, the Federal Penitentiary Service replaced Navalny’s suspended sentence assigned in the Yves Rocher case with a real one. The next day he will fly to Russia on January 17th. Soon the FSIN announced its intention to detain Navalny “while establishing his whereabouts.” demanded announced stated - Alexey Navalny underwent a long course of treatment and rehabilitation in Germany after he was killed on a plane flying from Tomsk to Moscow on August 20. The plane made an emergency landing in Omsk, then, after lengthy negotiations, the politician from Russia was hospitalized in the German Charité clinic. Navalny spent about two weeks in a coma. Representatives of the Berlin Charité clinic, where Navalny was taken, found signs of a chemical warfare agent from the Novichok group in his body. In October, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) detected traces of poison from the Novichok group in Navalny’s tests. it became bad, they were taken away , they said it was confirmed - on December 14, 2020, an investigation was published by a group of journalists from publications, both with the participation and founded by politician Alexei Navalny. Investigators found that a group of FSB officers with medical training had been monitoring Navalny since 2017, and that security forces tried at least three times to poison Navalny with a nerve agent from the Novichok group. The Investigative Committee will check the actions of the FSB officers whom Navalny accused of poisoning. Bellingcat The Insider CNN Der Spiegel Anti-Corruption Foundation refused