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Navalny Appeal Hearing Set For Saturday 20 Feb

RUSSIA

Max Seddon at the FT tweets that the date for the appeal hearing of opposition politician Alexei Navalny's prison sentence has been set for Saturday 20 February at 1000 local time (0200ET, 0700GMT, 0800CET, 1500HKT).

  • Announcement comes as Navalny is in court on a separate charge to the one that saw him imprisoned for 2 years and 8 months earlier in February. The current case sees him charged with defaming a 95-year old war veteran. Navalny has claimed the case is fabricated and intended to smear his reputation among the Russian population.

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