Conviction of Aleksey Navalny in Russia

Today, a Russian court convicted Aleksey Navalny of libel and fined him 850,000 rubles. The Clooney Foundation for Justice’s TrialWatch initiative has been monitoring this case.  A report assessing the fairness of the trial and assigning it a grade in line with international standards by TrialWatch Expert Françoise Tulkens, who previously served as Vice-President of the European Court of Human Rights, will be forthcoming.