Thread by @JimmyGymShoes

@RusEmbUSA @KremlinRussia I am outraged by the attack on the life of Aleksei Navalny and by his subsequent treatment by the Russian government. It would seem the top concern of the prosecutors should be in finding and bringing to justice everyone involved in his poisoning, from

whoever took actions to get the poison into his system up to whoever ordered, or approved, the attack. Instead, Mr. Navalny was arrested upon return to his county and sent to prison for two years and eight months for purported “violation of [his] probation terms”.

It seems

obvious to an outsider that the prosecution and imprisonment of Aleksei Navalny is politically motivated, with the goal being to silence him and end his peaceful activism. It is absurd that the “violation” consisted of Mr. Navalny's failure to report regularly to a probation

officer, as part of his non-custodial sentence. He could not report to a probation officer, while in Germany! He was in the process of receiving life-saving treatment there, following his poisoning in Russia. There are reports that you @KremlinRussia personally approved his

emergency trip to Germany, while he lay in a coma.

Aleksei Navalny is a prominent and vocal government critic. Such activity is not a crime. It is a right. Mr. Navalny is a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for his peaceful political activism and for exercising his right

to freedom of expression. Alexsei Navalny should be immediately and unconditionally released!

other government critics.

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