Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny arrested hours after sentencing [View all]
Source: CNN
By Laura Smith-Spark, Matthew Chance and Alla Eshchenko, CNN
updated 3:01 PM EST, Tue December 30, 2014
Moscow (CNN) -- Just hours after he was found guilty of fraud in a politically charged trial and given a suspended sentence, blogger and Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny was detained after he broke house arrest and went to join a protest against the court's verdict.
He didn't try to hide what he was doing: He tweeted a picture of himself on the Moscow metro as he headed to the demonstration. "Under house arrest, yes, but today I very much want to be with you. That is why I am also going," said the caption on the photo.
News agency Interfax reported that Navalny was detained by police and was returned to his home, instead of being taken to jail. He was on house arrest for a conviction in a 2009 case.
Earlier, Navalny was in court, where he got a three-and-a-half year suspended sentence for the fraud conviction, while his brother, Oleg, also convicted of fraud, was given a prison term of the same length.
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/30/world/europe/russia-alexei-navalny-case/
There's a video accompanying the story, but it was clearly recorded before these latest events.
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