Kremlin Critic Navalny Was Political Prisoner, European Court Rules

Kremlin Critic Navalny Was Political Prisoner, European Court Rules
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny with his lawyers after the judgment regarding his case against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, on Nov. 15, 2018. Vincent Kessler/Reuters
John Smithies
John Smithies
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Europe’s top human-rights court has ruled that Russia’s repeated arrests and detentions of a politician who ran against Vladimir Putin breached his human rights and were politically motivated.

The European Court of Human Rights said that of the repeated detentions of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was arrested seven times between 2012 and 2014, at least two instances were designed to suppress “political pluralism.”
John Smithies
John Smithies
Journalist
A journalist for The EpochTimes based in London. These views are firmly my own.
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