The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign and Security Policy Josep Borrell commented on the decision to send Alexei Navalny to the colony (he is the founder of the Anti-Corruption Fund, included by the Ministry of Justice in the register of organizations performing the functions of a foreign agent ). He wrote about this on his Twitter account.
“The sentence to Alexei Navalny runs counter to Russia's international obligations in the field of the rule of law and fundamental freedoms. It contradicts the verdict of the ECHR, which found this case unfounded. I call for his immediate release, ”he said.
Earlier, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow replaced Alexey Navalny's suspended sentence with a real one. Navalny was sentenced to 3.5 years in a general regime colony. However, he will spend 2 years and 8 months in the colony, taking into account the year spent under house arrest during the preliminary investigation in the Yves Rocher case.
Navalny was detained on January 17 at the Moscow Sheremetyevo airport upon his return from Germany. According to him, he was treated in Berlin for poisoning. Navalny fell into a coma on August 20, he became ill during the flight from Tomsk to Moscow. On August 22, he was taken to a German clinic, whose doctors announced that the Russian was poisoned with a substance from the Novichok group. Russian doctors found no traces of the poison.
