The court did shorten the activist’s sentence by one and a half months.
Navalny appealed the sentence to Moscow city court on Saturday.
At the start of the proceedings, the anti-corruption activist asked the judge to allow video recordings of the trial for journalists, but the court denied the request.
His lawyer Olga Mikhailova then appealed to the court to release her client immediately, as demanded by the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
Mikhailova argued that Navalny’s life and health were in danger while in custody.
The court imposed the original sentence on February 2 after ruling that while Navalny was in Germany, he violated the probation period from a 2014 case in which he imposed a suspended sentence of three and a half years.
The suspended sentence was then replaced by a prison sentence.
Navalny was initially detained by the Russian state in January after arriving from Germany, where he spent five months recovering from the Novichok poisoning he blamed on the Russian government. The Kremlin has repeatedly denied any involvement.
Navalny’s libel case over comments regarding a World War II veteran will be heard later Saturday.
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