Moscow — Jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny has urged Western governments to sanction key allies of President Vladimir Putin as Russia ignores US and European calls to free him.
The outspoken critic of Putin was stopped by police at passport control as he landed in Moscow from Berlin, where he’d gone for treatment after the August nerve-agent attack he and Western governments blame on the Kremlin. His detention threatens a new round of tensions with the West, and he called on supporters in Russia to take to the streets in protest.
“I call for Western governments to review this list and make it known that they will sanction people from it if Alexei is not immediately released,” Navalny ally Vladimir Ashurkov wrote in Facebook.Navalny, who’s being held in Moscow’s notorious Matrosskaya Tishina prison, which is harsher than the holding cells where he was usually kept in the past, was defiant at Monday’s court hearing.
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