MOSCOW – On Monday, a Moscow court ordered the wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to pay a fine of 20,000 rubles (about $ 265) for violating the protest rules after she participated in a demonstration in the Russian capital. to demand his release.
Tens of thousands took to the streets in dozens of Russian cities on Sunday, shouting slogans against Russian President Vladimir Putin and demanding that the authorities release Navalny, who was arrested last month and could be sentenced to prison.
Wife of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, Yulia arrives to attend a court hearing in Moscow, Russia, Monday, February 1, 2021. Yulia Navalnaya was arrested in Moscow during an unauthorized demonstration to support her husband in January 31, 2021. (AP Photo / Alexander Zemlianichenko)
His wife, Yulia Navalnaya, participated in a protest in Moscow that took place despite the unprecedented security measures that city officials took before the demonstration.
She was quickly arrested and accused of participating in an unauthorized demonstration. A court on Monday ordered Navalnaya to pay a fine, his lawyer Svetlana Davydova told the Interfax news agency. Davydova said the defense plans to appeal the decision.
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In the biggest demonstration of discontent that Russia has seen in years, mass protests engulfed dozens of Russian cities for the second weekend in a row, despite efforts by Russian authorities to quell the unrest triggered by the 44-year-old Navalny prison, the fiercest of the critical Kremlin.
Navalny was arrested on January 17 on his return from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from a nervous agent poisoning he attributes to the Kremlin. Russian authorities rejected the charges. He faces a prison term for alleged parole violations of a 2014 money laundering conviction, which was widely considered to be politically motivated.
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Russian authorities cracked down on protesters on Sunday, detaining more than 5,400 people across the country, according to OVD-Info, a legal aid group that monitors arrests in protests. The group said it was the largest in its nine-year record-keeping history in the Putin era.