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Alexey Navalny References Harry Potter and Rick and Morty During Appeal Speech
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2:17Now Playing“Russia will be happy.”
Alexey Navalny mixed Harry Potter and Rick and Morty references in a defiant speech at a Moscow court on Saturday, before he lost an appeal of his jailing.
A Moscow court upheld a Feb. 2 decision to convert a 2014 suspended sentence into prison time, reducing the penalty by 6 weeks to about 2 1/2 years after crediting Navalny for time spent under house arrest. Prosecutors accused Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic of breaking the terms of his probation while recovering in Germany from a near-fatal nerve-agent attack that he and Western governments blamed on the Kremlin. Russian authorities deny any role in the poisoning.
Later Saturday, he was convicted in a separate case of slandering a World War II veteran who had participated in a pro-Kremlin TV ad. The court fined him 850,000 rubles ($11,500). Navalny denied guilt and called the charges politically motivated.
His arrest in mid-January as he came back to Russia provoked the biggest unrest in years and condemnation by the European Union and the U.S., which are both considering new sanctions to punish Putin for his imprisonment. Authorities cracked down on the demonstrations last month, detaining more than 11,000 people and prosecuting key Navalny allies. With the opposition compelled to call a temporary halt to street rallies, there were no major protests on Saturday.
“I don’t regret that I returned -- I did the right thing,” Navalny told the court before the ruling that upheld his jail term. In a characteristically defiant speech that cited the Bible, Harry Potter and science fiction cartoon series Rick and Morty, he said: “The main thing I want to say is don’t be afraid. Tens of millions of people want truth and sooner or later they’ll get it. Russia will be happy.”
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