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Law enforcement officers block Moscow's Manezhnaya Square on February 2, 2021. A Moscow court on February 2 granted a prosecutors' request for Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to serve prison time for violating the terms of his parole. Judge Natalya Repnikova ordered a suspended three-and-a-half-year sentence Navalny received in 2014 to be changed to time in a penal colony, an AFP journalist at the courthouse said. Repnikova said time Navalny previously spent under house arrest in the sentence would count as time served, and, according to his team, that would mean at least two-and-a-half years in prison now. Navalny's Anti-Corruption Fund (FBK) immediately called for supporters to protest in central Moscow. (Photo by Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP Photo)
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