Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader 'poisoned'

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It's relevant because a poster a couple of pages back commented on the removal of his prisoner of conscience status. The link explains that that status has been restored.
But unless you have any trust in Amnesty, which I do, but most of this country don't, then its a meaningless label, seeing its a label purely created by Amnesty.

I'm sure, well I know, Amnesty also have a lot to say about the plight of the Palestinians, the Iraq war, US & UK extraordinary rendition, US war crimes in Afghnistan and Iraq (which deserve the death penalty for an aussie journalist for exposing - I bet Nixon wished he was President now, instead of when journos could freely investigate and report on govt corruption), the overthrowing of a Libyan govt by militarily supporting islamic extremists who then governed the country, Yemen and far far more. So either all Amnesty views are relevant. Or none are relevant.

But but Navalny. Of all the carnage in the world, namely the Middle East yet it is he who is BIG news. And deserves a thread because.........? Who cares. The huge mistreatment of some attention seeking loon on CIA's payroll, who seems to want to die a martyr for no actual cause, isn't required to already confirm that we know Putin and Russia are a far-right nationalist, racist, homophobic, authoritarian nutcase regime and country. A utopia-like vision to Farage, kippers and some on the right in this country. Yet english/british exceptionalism dictates that we continue as always to turn a blind eye to our own recent actions, along with the growth of our far right, but instead one CIA associate in Russia deserves frontpage billing regularly in british MSM. "What's that, we've helped cause the world biggest humanitarian crisis in Yemem. But look over there, Putin poisoned someone so badly they survived, He's REALLY bad". Which he probably is, but he's currently not destroying innocent lives in Yemen
 
all the carnage in the world,
But but Navalny.
I think most people can manage concern about persecuted individuals as well as concern about "all the carnage in the world".

Sometimes too a persecuted person is representative of a larger class, and the media focus on that person is in fact a focus on the larger group. Thus it could be said that Navalny represents not so much his own particular political beliefs as the general class of opposition politicians and journalists under Putin.

Besides, if you have a positive view of Amnesty, why do you have a negative and dismissive view of someone Amnesty supports? Didn't you say "either all Amnesty views are relevant, or none are relevant"?
 
The New York Times reports:

MOSCOW — Aleksei A. Navalny, who for a decade challenged the Kremlin in street protests and elections, survived an assassination attempt and is now in a Russian prison, on Wednesday was awarded the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, the European Union’s top human rights award. ...

The prize was as much a recognition of Mr. Navalny’s decade-long role leading the Russian political opposition as a stinging rebuke of President Vladimir V. Putin, whom Mr. Navalny has accused of subverting his country’s post-Soviet democracy to remain in power. Mr. Navalny has also accused Mr. Putin of ordering his assassination.

AP, via NPR:

In awarding the Sakharov Prize to Navalny, the European Parliament praised his "immense personal bravery." The 45-year-old activist was poisoned with a nerve agent last year and promptly arrested upon his return to Moscow from treatment in Germany and later imprisoned.

"He has campaigned consistently against the corruption of Vladimir Putin's regime, and through his social media accounts and political campaigns, Navalny has helped expose abuses and mobilize the support of millions of people across Russia. For this, he was poisoned and thrown in jail," parliament President David Sassoli in a statement.

Last year's prize went to the Belarus opposition under Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya, "for their challenge to President Alexander Lukashenko's rule".
 
I note our Kremlin friend on here has reined back on his more obvious comments lately , though he does think I am stalking him based on a comment on another thread .
 
Putin shuts down Russia's "most celebrated civil rights group":

Russian authorities have threatened to shutter Memorial, the country’s oldest civil rights group, in a move that the celebrated NGO has called politically motivated.

Prosecutors have filed a lawsuit to liquidate the human rights organisation for alleged violations of Russia’s “foreign agents” act. If successful, the NGO’s closure would be a watershed moment in the Kremlin’s assault on independent thought in Russia.

Established in the late 1980s, Memorial has documented political repression under the Soviet Union, building a database of the victims of the Great Terror and gulag camps. It has also become an outspoken advocate for the cause of civil rights in modern Russia. Its founders include the famed dissident Andrei Sakharov.
In the last year, the organisation recognised supporters of Alexei Navalny as political prisoners and said that the growing crackdown on opposition resembled the Soviet era.
 
This new documentary film from CNN Films and HBO Max, airs on Monday at 9pm on BBC2
In August 2020, a plane travelling from Siberia to Moscow made an emergency landing. One of its passengers, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, was deathly ill. Taken to a local Siberian hospital and eventually evacuated to Berlin, doctors there confirmed that he had been poisoned with Novichok, a nerve agent implicated in attacks on other opponents of the Russian government. President Vladimir Putin immediately cast doubt on the findings and denied any involvement.

While recovering, Navalny and his team unravel the plot against him, finding evidence of the Kremlin’s involvement,

 
"After human rights commission's visit, Navalny's prison installs blinding lights in his cell."

The imprisoned politician Alexey Navalny is coping with the prison authorities’ diabolical inventiveness in making his life intolerable.

This time, after a human rights commission visited Navalny and pointed out that his cell was too dark, the penal colony’s administration installed several extremely bright LED lights in his six-by-ten-foot punishment cell.

“Thanks a lot, guys,” Navalny said to the human rights monitors, 'You’ve really done me a damn favor. It’s you who made them change the lights, but it’s me who will go blind in three months. Seems unfair, doesn’t it. Get back over here, and change everything back to how it was.'

The lights make it unbearable just to be in the cell, reports the politician.
 
Navalny's lawyers have been arrested:

Russian authorities have detained three lawyers representing imprisoned opposition leader Alexei Navalny after searching their homes, his allies have said.

The move was an attempt to “completely isolate Navalny,” his associate Ivan Zhdanov said on social media. Navalny has been behind bars since January 2021, serving a 19-year prison sentence.

The raids targeting Vadim Kobzev, Igor Sergunin and Alexei Liptser are part of a criminal case on charges of participating in an extremist group, Zhdanov said. All three were detained after the search, apparently as suspects in the case, Navalny’s team said on Telegram. All three later in the day appeared in court and were ordered to pre-trial detention pending investigation and trial.
Navalny, currently in Penal Colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region east of Moscow, is due to be transferred to a “special security” penal colony, a facility with the highest security level in the Russian penitentiary system, his spokesperson Kira Yarmysh told the Associated Press news agency.

“If he won’t have access to lawyers, he will end up in complete isolation, the kind no one can really even imagine,” she said.

If his lawyers end up in jail, Navalny will be deprived not only of legal representation but also of his “only connection” to the world outside prison, Yarmysh said.

“Letters go through poorly and are being censored,” she said. With Navalny being held in a special punitive facility in the colony, he is not allowed any phone calls and hardly any visits from anyone but his lawyers, she added, “and now it means he will be deprived of this, as well”.
 
What a sorry fudgeing state we've let the world get in. Someone like Navalny should be running Russia, not being imprisoned for standing up to a fascist.
 
'Yarmysh said Navalny’s lawyer managed to see him on Monday and added: “He is doing well.”

Navalny’s aides had been preparing for his expected transfer to a “special regime” colony, the harshest grade in Russia’s prison system.'
 

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