Germany Calls for Immediate Release of Putin Opponent Navalny

Source: Bloomberg | March 22, 2022 | Angela Cullen

Germany called for the immediate release of Alexey Navalny after the jailed Russian opposition leader was sentenced to nine years in a high-security prison on Tuesday.

There is “nothing to justify” the judgment, German government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit said in a Twitter post. “The external aggression and internal repression have reached a new dimension in Russia,” Hebestreit wrote.

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Tuesday’s ruling will keep Russian President Vladimir Putin’s top critic, currently serving a two-and-a-half year sentence, sidelined for longer.

The latest sentencing is “a blatant act of despotism,” Germany’s foreign office later said in a statement. “It adds to the systematic instrumentalization of the Russian justice system against dissidents and the political opposition.”

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