United Nations experts urge independent probe into Navalny’s poisoning
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Russian officials have dismissed demands from the United States and the European Union to free Navalny and stop the crackdown on his supporters.
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Agnes Callamard, attending a press conference on findings of the investigation on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression into the case of Alexei Navalny. | Photo Credit:
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Russian officials have dismissed demands from the United States and the European Union to free Navalny and stop the crackdown on his supporters.
Two top U.N. human rights experts urged an international probe into the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and called Monday for his immediate release from prison.
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A Moscow court on Saturday rejected Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny s appeal against his prison sentence, even as the country faced a top European rights court s order to free the Kremlin s most prominent foe.
Navalny was sentenced earlier this month by a lower court to two years and eight months in prison for violating terms of his probation while recuperating in Germany from a nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin. Russian authorities have rejected the accusation.