Shocking: Russian court denies bail to Navalny

A court in Russian has denied an appeal by opposition leader Alexei Navalny for freedom from jail, as a number of his associates were also arrested.

He used his court vision to deliver a warning to the Russian regime, which he has cited of trying to kill him with a nerve-agent.

“You won't get in scaring tens of millions of people who have been taken by that government,” he said. “Yes, you have the ability now to put me in handcuffs, but it's not going to last forever.”

On Wednesday police raided a number of homes and offices linked to the politician, who is the highest-profile opponent of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Following public protests against his detention last weekend, thousands of people were held, and in the days following them, a number of his associates were detained too.

They include his brother, Oleg; his top ally, Lyubov Sobol; Oleg Stepanov, end of Navalny’s Moscow office; Dr. Anastasia Vasilyeva from the Navalny-backed Alliance of Doctors; and Maria Alyokhina from the Pussy Riot punk organization.

They were detained for 48 hours as part of a criminal probe into alleged violations of coronavirus arrangements during Saturday's protests.

The 44-year-old was arrested on January 17 upon passing from Germany, where he spent five months recuperating from the nerve-agent poisoning.

Russian authorities have denied the accusation that they were slow it.

He was jailed initially for 30 days after the prison help alleged he had violated his probation terms relating to a 2014 money-laundering conviction that he has discarded a politically motivated. He also faces indictments in two separate criminal probes.

Russia had been treating this occurrence extremely harshly. Several countries including France and the United Kingdom have demanded the release of Navalny after he was unlawfully detained from the Airport after reaching the country. Demonstrators in large numbers gathered last week demanding the release of the opposition leader, however more than a half were detained by police for protesting.