Russia includes jailed opponent Navalny on the list of “terrorists and extremists”

The AFP agency consulted that list on Tuesday (25.01.2022), and it has also included one of Navalny’s closest collaborators, Liubov Sobol, who decided to go into exile in the face of harassment from the authorities.
In this catalogue there are thousands of people and organizations banned in Russia, such as the jihadists of the Islamic State or the Afghan Taliban.
According to Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Fund, which has been banned since June, at least nine other people linked to the movement were also added to the list.
This decision is part of a context of repression against critical voices in the country.
In mid-January, Navalny’s two main collaborators, Ivan Khdanov and Léonid Volkov, who also went into exile, were already included.
Navalny was arrested on January 17, 2021 upon his arrival in Moscow, after months of convalescence in Germany after being poisoned in Siberia, a fact for which the opponent blames Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Russia has not opened an investigation into this assassination attempt and considers that there is no evidence since Germany has not shared the medical analyses carried out on Navalny.
The furious 45-year-old Kremlin opponent was sentenced on his return to Russia to two and a half years in prison for a case of “fraud,” an accusation he considers purely political.
His conviction sparked a barrage of international criticism and new Western sanctions against Russia.

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