Russians seek jail time for leader

– Russian prison officials are seeking to scrap a suspended sentence for opposition leader Alexei Navalny and put him in jail.

Moscow’s Simonovsky court said yesterday the Federal Penitentiary Service asked the court to cancel Navalny’s three-anda-half year suspended sentence he received in a fraud case in December 2014.

Navalny was released from jail last week after serving 25 days for organising a wave of protests. – AP

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