Navalny cuts ties ... with his tracking bracelet (Russia)
Source: Al Jazeera
Lawyer-turned-blogger and Russian political opposition leader Alexei Navalny has unilaterally declared an end to his house arrest and — “with some effort” — cut the electronic monitoring bracelet off his ankle. He accomplished this task with ordinary kitchen scissors, according to a statement.
Blame shoddy Russian workmanship ... and a Russian penal system that is struggling to find a way to quiet Navalny without further raising his profile.
Navalny has been a steady critic of the government of Vladimir since championing mass street demonstrations against state corruption three years ago. In what was widely seen as a retaliatory move, Russian courts recently found Navalny and his brother, Oleg, guilty of inflating shipping charges for a Russian subsidiary of a French cosmetics company. The company used a courier owned by the brothers.
Sentencing had been scheduled for mid-January, but courts abruptly rendered a sentence last week, the day before New Years Eve, in what was seen as an attempt to short-circuit planned protest gatherings. Oleg was given jail time, but Alexei Navalny was handed a three-and-a-half year suspended sentence and returned to house arrest, pending what was termed and official filing of his sentence.
Read more: http://america.aljazeera.com/blogs/scrutineer/2015/1/6/navalny-cuts-anklebracelet.html
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cosmicone
(11,014 posts)He did inflate the shipping invoices to defraud ....
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)Is that what his sentencing was for rather than leading protests? If not, what it the precise relevance?
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)"Russian courts recently found Navalny and his brother, Oleg, guilty of inflating shipping charges for a Russian subsidiary of a French cosmetics company. The company used a courier owned by the brothers."
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)"Sentencing had been scheduled for mid-January, but courts abruptly rendered a sentence last week, the day before New Years Eve..."
Nope... nothing to see here. Standard policy one might allege. 
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Devyani Khobragade was a diplomat and an official representative of India. She should have been declared persona non grata and expelled. There was no reason to strip search her.
Completely different things from the Russian case.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Why do you think a woman being charged with a felony is exempt?
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)She should have been expelled -- which is the standard protocol.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Even diplomats committing murders are expelled and sent back.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)Who are the murderers you refer to? Are you thinking this is an example we ought to emulate?
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Diplomats are never arrested - even when caught spying, robbing, murdering or assaulting. They are expelled. The only time a diplomat is arrested and charged is when the country concerned waives those rights.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)claim?
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)In April 1984, a Libyan diplomat opened fire against demonstrators outside the London embassy and killed a police officer (yvonne Fletcher) while wounding several. No one was charged and Britain simply terminated diplomatic relations with Libya, expelling all personnel.
Another case was of an inebriated Romanian diplomat, Dr Silviu Ionescu, 49, who beat traffic lights and knocked down three men along Bukit Panjang Road in Singapore in 2009. One of the victims was Malaysian Tong Kok Wai, 30, who died three days later.
Then there was the Burmese Ambassador to Sri Lanka who murdered his wife and burned her body in full view of the cops and people. Never charged and was expelled.
uhnope
(6,419 posts)The Kremlin has perfected the system of sending inconvenient people to prison
Russian businessmen declared prisoners of conscience after convictions are upheld
