Ally of opposition leader detained in Moscow.
Key sentence:
- A member of the Anti-Corruption Foundation group of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny was imprisoned by a Moscow court.
2.Any of those targeted have challenged their conclusions and also have taken effective legal action.
3.Putin denied that the authorities had attempted to poison Navalny.
According to a court release, Pavel Zelensky, a member of the Anti-Corruption Foundation group of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, was imprisoned by a Moscow court on Saturday till February 28 on allegations of inciting violence on the internet.
Since being poisoned in August as well as evacuated to Germany which he has been recovering, his detention by the Presnensky District Court arrives a day before Navalny’s expected to return to Russia.
A Moscow-based human rights group stated on social media:
Zelensky is a camera operator for the Anti-Corruption Foundation of the opposition leader, that specialized in the dissemination of high-impact inquiries at what it claims is official graft. Any of those targeted have challenged their conclusions and also have taken effective legal action.
He was arrested on Friday, the head of Agora, a human rights organization based in Moscow, said that on social media, and will now spend more than a month in pre-trial detention.
Agora quoted the camera operator’s lawyer as claiming that Zelensky’s case revolves around a tweet shared last October.
The tweet contained a pic of Irina Slavina:
The tweet included a picture of Irina Slavina, a Russian journalist who dies a day after her apartment was raided by police after she had set herself on fire at the front of a branch of the Ministry Of interior.
The social media message expressed frustration at the state and called on individuals to take offline any feelings of dissent.
As Ivan Zhdanov stated:
“(We) will not give up and would help Pasha Zelensky’s family in each and every way possible,” just after a court session Ivan Zhdanov, director of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, said that on Twitter.
Navalny plans to return to Russia:
Last week, on January 17, Navalny revealed his decision to return to Russia, indicating his willingness to continue his political battle towards Russian President Vladimir Putin, whom he suspects of having ordered his Novichok nerve agent attack.
For the Kremlin, his return presents a conundrum: jail him as well as risk demonstrations, punitive Western intervention and the creation of a political martyr; or do nothing and also risk appearing weak.
Putin has denied the authorities tried to poison Navalny:
Putin denied that the authorities had attempted to poison Navalny as well as said that if they wanted him dead, Russian agents might have finished the job. The Kremlin said that it saw no evidence that Navalny had been poisoned and that he was free to go back at any point to Russia.
