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Russia seeks to change Navalny's brother's suspended sentence to jail term - agencies

by Reuters
Tuesday, 25 January 2022 10:41 GMT

MOSCOW, Jan 25 (Reuters) - Russia's Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) on Tuesday demanded that jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's brother Oleg be given a real prison sentence in place of a one-year suspended sentence handed to him last year, Russian news agencies reported.

A Russian court gave Oleg Navalny a one-year suspended sentence last August for inciting people to break COVID-19 restrictions. He had been detained in January 2021 as part of a broad crackdown on his brother's allies. (Writing by Alexander Marrow, editing by Mark Trevelyan)

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