Russia: 45 countries demand immediate release of Alexey Navalny
Alexei Navalny at a hearing to consider an appeal against an earlier court ruling to change his suspended sentence to a full-blown prison sentence, in Moscow, February 20, 2021. REUTERS - MAXIM SHEMETOV
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Alexeï Navalny's lawyers are looking for their client.
He was transferred from his prison in the Vladmir region to an unknown location.
The prison services refuse, for the moment, to say where he was taken.
The case of the Russian opponent was once again raised at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
45 countries call for his immediate and unconditional release.
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From the United States to Japan via the 27 Member States of the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada: 45 countries deem
Alexeï Navalny's imprisonment
illegal and demand an investigation into his imprisonment.
Such a joint declaration is unprecedented against Russia.
It was read by the representative of Poland at the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva.
The press release denounces “
unacceptable and politically motivated
” measures taken by the Russian authorities against the opponent.
He expresses his concern at the large number of arbitrary arrests of demonstrators who express their support for Alexeï Navalny.
The signatories also regret that the poisoning of the opponent is not the subject of a real investigation.
Russia, which has not initiated legal proceedings, regularly regrets that Germany, France and Sweden, whose military laboratories have found Novichok in the analyzes of Alexeï Navalny, do not share their data.
Beyond the case of the opponent, the signatories of the text express their concern at "
certain recent legislative amendments and constitutional changes which further restrict rights and freedoms
" and regret the "
shrinking of the space of civil society
”in Russia.
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