MOSCOW — On July 14, a court ordered Violetta Grudina, a former local representative for opposition leader Aleksei Navalny in Murmansk who is seeking a seat on the City Council, hospitalized and treated for COVID-19 — despite the fact that she had no symptoms, a negative test, and a doctor who testified that she did not need treatment.
RFE/RL: Russian activists find themselves sentenced to compulsory medical treatment
Mikhail Kosenko, one of the activists accused of violence at a rally on the eve of President Vladimir Putin's inauguration, stands in a defendant cage in a court in Moscow, on Oct. 8, 2013.
