Borrell: "Moscow respects the European Court of Human Rights and immediately frees Navalny"

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February 18, 2021

"The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that

. Europe reiterates its call to the Russian authorities to do so without delay," writes the EU High Representative for Foreign Policy in a tweet. , Josep Borrell.

"We expect Russia to respect its international commitments as a signatory to the European Convention on Human Rights," adds the EU chief of diplomacy.

The

of its regulations, forcing Moscow to be released immediately for the "nature and extent of the risk to life" of Navalny.

Vladimir Putin's opponent, 44, was arrested last month on his return to Moscow from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from the poisoning he suffered in Russia, for which he accuses the Kremlin.

The #ECHR ruled Alexei @navalny should be released immediately.

The EU reiterates its call on the Russian authorities to do so without delay.

We expect Russia to comply with its international commitments as signatory of the European Convention on Human Rights.

- Josep Borrell Fontelles (@JosepBorrellF) February 18, 2021

For the Russian authorities, the formal request of the European Court of Human Rights is an "interference".

"The decision is unlawful.

, which is unacceptable from our point of view," said Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, commenting on the Tass agency.

"We are not looking for a confrontation, but such decisions, the haste with which they are taken - he said - raise many questions".

Even the response of the Russian Minister of Justice, Konstantin Chuychenko, does not in any way open to the Court.

Chuychenko, in fact, argues that the EU request has no legal basis.

The court of the city of Moscow rejected the appeal against the

, Oleg, accused of inciting the violation of anti-Covid regulations and epidemiological on the occasion of the unauthorized demonstration of 23 January in the Russian capital, in support of the opponent arrested in mid-January on his return home from Germany.

In addition to Oleg Navalny, serving his sentence under house arrest until March 23 are the press secretary of the opponent, Kira Yarmysh, one of the activists of Pussy Riot Maria Alekhina, and one of the leading collaborators of the Anti-Corruption Fund of Navalny, Nikolai Lyaskin and others.