2024-07-15 21:55:02
Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalna, is appealing an order to arrest her in absentia on charges of involvement in an extremist organization. This is clear from the website of the Basman court in Moscow, TASS reported, quoted by BTA.
“The decision to impose a measure of detention on Navalny in the form of arrest in absentia has been appealed,” it says on the court’s website. The appeal will be heard later by the Moscow City Court.
Navalny has been charged with participating in the activities of an extremist organization recognized by the Russian Federation – the Anti-Corruption Fund. On July 9, the Basman Court in Moscow ordered her to be arrested in absentia and declared her wanted. Rosfinmonitoring included her in the list of terrorists and extremists.
A Moscow court last week issued an arrest warrant for Navalna for her alleged involvement in an extremist group. According to the order, Navalna must be held in pre-trial detention for two months. The court accused Navalna, who lives outside Russia, of participating in an “extremist” group. The decision means she will be arrested if she returns to the country.
France condemned the arrest warrant issued by Russia and described it as “another step in the authoritarian inclination of the Russian regime”. This shows the determination of the Russian regime to prevent Yulia Navalny from taking over Alexei Navalny’s fight against corruption and in favor of freedom of expression,” the ministry noted, hailing Navalny’s “courage and determination.”
Navalny has vowed to take over from her husband, who was a staunch critic of Russian President Vladimir Putin, after his death under unclear circumstances in an Arctic prison in February this year.