A Moscow judge denied Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny’s appeal for release from a detention center Jan. 28, after the opposition leader slammed the court process as “one big demonstrative violation of the law” and thanked protesters for their support.
Washington Post: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny ordered to remain jailed
Opposition leader Alexei Navalny appears on a screen set up at a hall of the Moscow Regional Court via a video link from Moscow's penal detention centre Number 1 (known as Matrosskaya Tishina) during a court hearing of an appeal against his arrest, in Krasnogorsk outside Moscow on January 28, 2021. - Navalny, 44, was detained on January 17 upon returning to Moscow after five months in Germany recovering from a near-fatal poisoning with a nerve agent and later jailed for 30 days while awaiting trial for violating a suspended sentence he was handed in 2014. (Photo by Alexander NEMENOV / AFP)
