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Navalny court hearing begins - he answers basic procedural questions.
Court packed with journalists and observers, Navalny inside glass box.
No photos allowed
Court packed with journalists and observers, Navalny inside glass box.
No photos allowed
Navalny’s lawyer begins to lay out the defence, that the anti-corruption activist was unable to attend judicial meetings in moscow prescribed by his suspended sentence, because he was recovering from a nerve agent assassination attempt in a Berlin hospital
As the judge and his lawyer exchange remarks, Navalny looks around the small glass box he must spend the hearing in. He reaches up to grab the bars that enclose him from above and peers at the courtroom ceiling
An officer from the prosecution service walks across the grey and white tiled floor to exchange documents with the judge.
Judge calls for a 10 minute break in the hearing.
Judge calls for a 10 minute break in the hearing.
Amid recess, one of Navalny’s two lawyers goes to talk to him as three police officers stand guard.
Four officers in camo gear and bullet vests positioned around the rest of the courtroom. At least six more standing with the press and diplomats.
Four officers in camo gear and bullet vests positioned around the rest of the courtroom. At least six more standing with the press and diplomats.
Judge returns, courtroom rises.
The prosecution continues its argument
The prosecution continues its argument
Prosecutor Ekaterina Frolova tells the court that documents regarding Navalny’s recovery are not pertinent as they don’t specify what he was doing after he was formally discharged from hospital
Second prosecutor (didn’t catch his name, talking into his notes and mumbling through his facemask) gives long speech outlining the separate dates when Navalny was supposed to appear before judicial officials under the terms of his suspended sentence but did not.
Prosecutor says that data from the “information communications network” (the internet) prove Navalny was moving around Germany after he was discharged from hospital, and when he should have been back in Russia attending the meetings with prison service
Prosecutor formally asks the judge to convert Navalny’s three and a half year suspended sentence to a jail term of the same length.The sentence is related to a 2014 fraud case which the European Court of Human Rights has ruled was politically motivated
Judge, sat in a high-backed wooden chair and wearing black robes and black gloves, questions the prosecution on certain details of their statement.
Navalny, listening quietly, stands up against the glass wall of his court cage, slowly shifting his weight from foot to foot
Navalny, listening quietly, stands up against the glass wall of his court cage, slowly shifting his weight from foot to foot
