The European Union has declared the arrest of Russian opposition leader Alexéi Navalny unacceptable and has announced its immediate release.

The European Union is demanding the release of Alexei Navalny, who detained this domingo, more than Russia, in a desperate procedure in Germany, which has recovered from the storm that passed in August.

The activist detention of 44 years is “unacceptable”, said the former President of the European Council, Charles Michel, who called in Moscow his “immediate” release.

The leader of the opposition was arrested by the police in control of the passports of the Sheremetyevo airport in Moscow, according to the images transmitted directly by digital media.

Various police force the defendant to the plaintiff, while the Navalny court requests to be accompanied by his lawyer, petition that the defendant be denied.

The politician was dispatched with a letter from his wife, Yulia, with whom he had returned to Moscow from Germany, where he had recovered during about five months of the incident he suffered in August.

The three Baltic states, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia, in addition, join the European Union “restrictive measures” against Russia. “The detention of Aléxei Navalni is totally unacceptable. We demand our immediate release ”, on behalf of the three Baltic countries, the Minister of Exteriors of Lithuania, Gabrielius Landsbergis, shared his Twitter account.

“Alexéi Navalny has the privacy of his own in terms of pacifist political activity and in pursuing the freedom of expression. Amnistía Internacional considers it a matter of conscientiousness and confidence in its immediate and unconditional release “, denounced Amnistía Internacional in a communiqué. His detention “is a test of what the Russian authorities are doing,” said Natalia Zviágina, Director of the Office of the Moscow Mosque.

“The organization is returning its allegations to the authorities, which are pushing for a criminal investigation into Navalny’s decision and guarantee that all those responsible will justify justice in a fair trial,” the NGO said.

According to AI, the Russian authorities took “an implacable campaign” against the opponent, 44 years old and stopped training. The NGO added that “Russian authorities should end their campaign of intimidation and political persecution against their critics, including members of staff and members of the Navalny Anti-Corruption Foundation”.

“Authorities are conducting the Alexéi Navalni operation as a full security operation involving police officers summoned to Vnukovo airport, arresting and firing at those parties at a temperature of 20 degrees Celsius,” AI said.

The opponent who is trying to challenge Putin

As announced this week, Naval is regretting its domination of its members in Germany over the past week in which the leader of the opposition, led by Russian President Vladimir Putin, resigned.

“I can tell you that I’m completely happy to have regressed and that I’m better off in the last fifty months,” he said. From the aircraft, they return to Germany and, in particular, to the doctors and nurses who treat them during their recovery.

Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (SFP), which has issued a search warrant and arrest against the opposition politician, has confirmed its detention. It acusan to include the conditions of a suspended sentence of 3.5 years dictated against him in 2014 and has submitted to the Justice that order his entry into prison.

The opponent, underlined by the SFP in a statement, “will be detained until the Justice takes over”.

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