Russia: Police detain Navalny supporters in Saint Petersburg

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Police detained supporters of Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny in Saint Petersburg on Tuesday.

Law enforcement officers were seen reminding people of the ban on mass gatherings due to the pandemic, before detaining several individuals.

The number of detained is not known.

Calls for action appeared on social media soon after Moscow's Simonovsky District Court ruled to revoke opposition activist Alexei Navalny's probation in connection with the 'Yves Rocher' case and replace it with a custodial sentence.

The court gave Navalny, who was sentenced to three and a half years in prison, a two-year and eight-month term considering his house arrest during the 2014 'Yves Rocher' investigation and detention from 17 January 2021.

The opposition activist said he shouldn't serve a real sentence under the 'Yves Rocher' case as the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg concluded that his actions didn't qualify as a crime and asked for his release in the courtroom.

The anti-corruption campaigner was taken into custody on January 17 upon his return to Russia from Germany, where he spent nearly five months recovering from an alleged Novichok nerve agent attack. On January 18, Navalny was sentenced to 30 days in jail for breaching parole conditions of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction.

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