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.

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。