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On Tuesday, February 2, Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny was sentenced to serve 3 1/2 years in a penal colony over parole violations stemming from a 2014 money laundering case.Counting time served under house arrest in 2014, Navalny is set to spend two years and eight months in confinement.The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) had earlier found his conviction arbitrary and unreasonable. On February 1, the day before Navalny was sentenced, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) noted there had been two weeks of nationwide protests
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