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Up to 1,400 people have been arrested since the protests in support of Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Reuters
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Up to 1,400 people have been arrested since the protests in support of Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Photo: Reuters
Up to 1,400 people have been arrested since the protests in support of Alexei Navalny, a fierce critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The BBC reports that the information was provided by an organization that monitors the human rights situation in the country.
Images of protesters were seen by Moscow police batons. A Moscow court sentenced Navalny, 44, to three and a half years in prison for violating a suspended sentence.
Navalny returned to the country on January 17 after a few months of treatment in Germany after surviving an “assassination attempt with Novichak” of a nerve agent in August last year; He was arrested the same day.
Navalny was required to appear regularly before the police during the suspension of his sentence in the money laundering case, which he allegedly violated. The sentence now suspended for violating the conditions has been converted to prison.
Claiming that the case was “solved,” Navalny accused Putin of plotting to assassinate him. He called the Russian president a “poisoner.” The Kremlin has denied Navalny’s accusations from the start.
The European Union, the United Kingdom and the United States have strongly condemned Navalny’s imprisonment. They also demanded the immediate release of the leader of the Russian opposition.
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