MOSCOW, June 6 - RAPSI. The Zamoskvoretsky district court in Moscow will hear on June 7 opposition leader Alexei Navalny's appeal against the magistrate's court's decision to fine him $30 for resisting the police, lawyer Vadim Kobzev told the Russian Legal Information Agency on Wednesday.

On May 7, the magistrate fined Navalny 1,000 rubles for resisting police authority during the opposition rally on May 6.

The opposition leader told the court that he did not resist the police and merely walked past the police officers in question several times during the rally. He added that when the police officers detained him, they neither introduced themselves nor demanded anything of him. Navalny also said the police used an unnecessary level of force when detaining him.

His defense attorney Vadim Kobzev has said that the case should be closed as Navalny's actions did not constitute an offence.

However, the police officers maintain that Navalny called on people to resist the police, chanted anti-government slogans, and tried to create civil unrest.

The court has questioned neither witnesses of Navalny's detention nor the police officers involved. Instead, the judge has studied a video of the arrest and the accompanying papers.

On May 6, police detained over 400 people for various misdemeanors during an opposition rally in central Moscow.