MOSCOW (AP) ? A Russian court has sentenced an opposition leader to a 10-day jail term for disobeying police during an anti-Kremlin rally earlier this month.
Sergei Udaltsov of the Left Front movement said Thursday he would appeal the sentence by Moscow's Presnensky district court and declared a hunger strike.
Udaltsov, 35, played a key role in organizing a series of opposition protests in Moscow that drew tens of thousands to protest Vladimir Putin's rule.
He has been detained dozens of times in the past several years and has spent several months in jail. Udaltsov repeatedly went on hunger strikes, prompting supporters concerns about his health.
Also Thursday, another protest leader Alexei Navalny was fined 1,000 rubles ($33) for disobeying police orders at the rally Udaltsov helped organize.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/russian-opposition-leader-jailed-over-rally-125424012.html
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