Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny attend a rally in Vladivostok, Russia October 7, 2017. | (Photo: REUTERS/Yuri Maltsev)
Russian opposition leader, lawyer and anti-corruption activist Alexei Navalny paraphrased Jesus’ Sermon the Mount and made pop culture references during his final argument before a Moscow City Court rejected the appeal of his prison sentence relating to an alleged probation violation on Saturday.
Navalny, who was arrested on Jan. 17 upon returning to Russia after recovering at a Berlin hospital from a near-fatal nerve agent poisoning, told the judge he was not guilty of parole violations because he was unable to report to the Moscow prison service last year since he was recovering in Germany, according to reports.
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