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.

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。