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After a brief pre-trial detention, a colleague of Russian opponent Alexej Navalny is free again. Lyubov Sobol posted a video of himself on a Moscow street on Twitter that night. “I am completely innocent,” the 33-year-old told the independent television channel Doschd. “I believe that this criminal case against me is revenge against Navalny, no matter how absurd it may seem.”
The lawyer was arrested on Friday, just days after Nawalny’s phone call with one of his alleged killers. According to the authorities, they are being investigated for breaking and entering and threats of violence. Sobol is said to have broken into an old woman’s apartment. She denies it, was questioned six times, the opposition party said after her release. He was in custody for a good 48 hours.
Shortly after the publication of the call, Sobol filmed the police presence at the home of the alleged employee of the Russian national intelligence service FSB. She was later arrested and fined for opposing the orders of a police officer, according to the official report.
Navalny, 44, is still in Germany to be rehabilitated after being badly poisoned. He blames an FSB “assassin squad” operating under the orders of Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin for the poison attack with a Novichok group chemical warfare agent. The recording of the phone call with a suspicious agent caused quite a stir. In it, the man says that the poison was placed in Navalny’s underwear. The FSB then spoke of a “forgery”.
