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Russian Embassy in UK Slams Raab's Reaction to Ruling on Navalny Case

© REUTERS / MAXIM SHEMETOVRussian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest outside Moscow, Russia January 28, 2021
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny is seen on a screen via a video link during a court hearing to consider an appeal on his arrest outside Moscow, Russia January 28, 2021 - Sputnik International, 1920, 03.02.2021
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MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The Russian Embassy in the United Kingdom on Wednesday responded to UK Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab's criticism of a Moscow court's ruling against the opposition figure Alexey Navalny, drawing parallels between London's treatment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

On Tuesday, the Simonovsky Court canceled Navalny's suspended sentence in the 2014 Yves Rocher fraud case over multiple probation breaches and replaced it with 3.5 years in jail. If his defense loses appeal, he will spend 2 years and 8 months in custody, as the time spent under house arrest will be counted as time served. In the wake of the ruling, Raab described the ruling as "perverse" and demanded an immediate and unconditional release of Navalny.

​Assange was arrested in London in April 2019 and sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for jumping his bail back in 2012, when he took refuge inside the Ecuadorian embassy in the UK capital to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he faced sexual assault charges and possible extradition to the United States.

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