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Sobol, 33, has been supporting the opposition movement around Aleksej Navalnyj for years, like here at a demonstration in Moscow in early 2020.
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After 48 hours in the custody of the Russian authorities, lawyer Lyubov Sobol is again at liberty. A colleague of the recently poisoned Aleksej Navalnyj continues to deny the accusation of having committed a break-in.
northAfter a brief preventive detention, a colleague of the Russian opponent Aleksej Navalny is free again. Lyubov Sobol posted a video of himself on a Moscow street on Twitter Sunday 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 Navalnyj, no matter how absurd it may seem.”
The lawyer was arrested on Friday, just days after Navalnyj spoke to 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. The lawyer was detained 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.
Navalnyj, 44, is still in Germany to be rehabilitated after being seriously 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 tells that the poison was placed in Navalnyj’s underwear. The FSB then spoke of a “forgery”.
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