As the judge in Alexei Navalny’s hearing read out her verdict, sending him to a prison colony for more than two and a half years, the anti-corruption investigator and opposition activist mouthed a message to his wife: “Don’t be afraid. Everything will be OK.”
Financial Times: Navalny’s jailing is a watershed for Russia
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, charged with violating the terms of a 2014 suspended sentence for embezzlement, stands inside a glass cell during a court hearing in Moscow on Feb. 2, 2021.
