俄羅斯反對派領袖獲釋

A Russian court released opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Friday, pending the appeal against his five-year sentence on embezzlement charges.

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The court ruled that keeping Navalny in custody would deprive him of his right to run in Moscow's mayoral race on September 8.

Navalny was convicted Thursday of embezzling $500,000 worth of timber from a state-owned company, while working as an adviser to a provincial governor in 2009. He was immediately detained following the verdict.

Thousands of people in several Russian cities demonstrated against the conviction.一家俄羅斯法院星期五釋放了俄羅斯反對派領導人阿利克塞•納瓦爾尼，他對自己因侵吞公款罪名被判5年監禁提出上訴。

這家法院裁定，拘留納瓦爾尼會剝奪他9月8日競選莫斯科市長的權利。

納瓦爾尼星期四被裁定2009年在擔任州長顧問期間，佔有了一家國營公司價值50萬美元的木材。宣判之後，納瓦爾尼被立即收押。

在俄羅斯幾座城市，數千人舉行示威，反對這項判決。