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Putin critic tweets photo of his own electronic ankle bracelet he destroyed; defies house arrest
(Reuters) - Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny said on Monday he would no longer comply with the terms of his house arrest and had cut off his monitoring tag.
Navalny, who led mass protests against Putin three years ago, was handed a suspended sentence on Dec. 30 after being found guilty of embezzling money in a trial which led to his brother being jailed on similar charges. He was placed under house arrest almost a year ago during the investigation but said in a blog that he was perhaps the only person in Russian legal history to be kept under house arrest after being sentenced.
He said he should have been released after sentencing in late December, but instead was being held pending the publication of the verdict on Jan. 15 - a situation that even the police did not know how to deal with.
"It is stupid to brag, but I am the first person in the history of Russian courts to be sitting under house arrest after the verdict," he said on his blog. "I refuse to comply with the requirements of my illegal detention under house arrest. The bracelet with some effort has been cut off with kitchen scissors," he wrote, alongside a picture of the bracelet, or tag, that monitors his movements.
He said he had no plans to travel far.
Navalny, who led mass protests against Putin three years ago, was handed a suspended sentence on Dec. 30 after being found guilty of embezzling money in a trial which led to his brother being jailed on similar charges. He was placed under house arrest almost a year ago during the investigation but said in a blog that he was perhaps the only person in Russian legal history to be kept under house arrest after being sentenced.
He said he should have been released after sentencing in late December, but instead was being held pending the publication of the verdict on Jan. 15 - a situation that even the police did not know how to deal with.
"It is stupid to brag, but I am the first person in the history of Russian courts to be sitting under house arrest after the verdict," he said on his blog. "I refuse to comply with the requirements of my illegal detention under house arrest. The bracelet with some effort has been cut off with kitchen scissors," he wrote, alongside a picture of the bracelet, or tag, that monitors his movements.
He said he had no plans to travel far.
Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/05/us-russia-crisis-navalny-idUSKBN0KE14S20150105
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Putin will bare his chest and put an end to this.
How about it A L ?
At least it should be flagged a s such with a nice shirtless shot of putin, himself.
Although Putin could have him sent to the place he had the Pussy Riot singers sent to
or send out those Cossacks with the whips, like he did at the Olympics.
