The European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to release Alexei Navalny, prompting an angry response from Moscow.
The court ruled that Russia was unable to provide sufficient safeguards for the Kremlin critic’s life and health, citing the circumstances of his arrest. It warned that a failure to release him immediately would represent a breach of the European human rights convention, of which Russia is a signatory.
It is thought to be the first time the European Court of Human Rights has ordered Russia to set a convict free.
Navalny, 44, was arrested last month on arrival in Moscow from Berlin, where he had been recovering from a near-deadly nerve agent poisoning that he attributed to President Putin. Navalny was sentenced to two years
