Navaly verdict protests finish with over 1,400 detained

On February 2, a Moscow courtroom changed Alexey Navalny’s suspended sentence on the Yves Rocher case with an actual jail time period. Bearing in mind the home arrest, Navalny must serve 2 years and eight months in a common regime penal colony. After the decision was introduced, many individuals took to the streets to precise their disagreement with the courtroom ruling. Because of this, over 1,400 protesters had been detained in Moscow and St. Petersburg.Equally to the state of affairs of the protest motion held on January 31, riot police used stun weapons and beat peaceable protesters. No less than 1,408 had been detained in eleven cities of Russia, with Moscow and St. Petersburg accounting for the biggest share of detentions. The detainees are charged with administrative violations of the principles for participation in actions (Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code); they face fines from 10 to 300 thousand rubles and arrest phrases from 15 to 30 days. In Moscow, individuals stood up elevating their arms up, chanting that they had been unarmed. In response, riot police started to beat the protesters. As well as, riot police stopped and requested drivers to get out of their vehicles for honking in assist of the protesters.In St. Petersburg, the riot police detained bystanders who tried to get by to the subway. The station was closed, and the riot police began forcing individuals go into police vans. Those that refused to go voluntarily or tried to go to the subway had been threatened with a stun gun. No less than one man was electrocuted: he tried to seek out out the explanation for which he was being detained. When at police stations, a lot of the detainees had been pressured to have their photographs and finger prints taken. Many needed to spend the night time at police stations.