俄罗斯反对派领袖获释

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.一家俄罗斯法院星期五释放了俄罗斯反对派领导人阿利克塞•纳瓦尔尼，他对自己因侵吞公款罪名被判5年监禁提出上诉。

这家法院裁定，拘留纳瓦尔尼会剥夺他9月8日竞选莫斯科市长的权利。

纳瓦尔尼星期四被裁定2009年在担任州长顾问期间，占有了一家国营公司价值50万美元的木材。宣判之后，纳瓦尔尼被立即收押。

在俄罗斯几座城市，数千人举行示威，反对这项判决。