Josep Borrell, High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, calls on Russia to immediately release Alexei Navalny.
“Russian authorities must respect Alexei Navalny’s rights and release him immediately.
Politicisation of the judiciary is unacceptable”, he tweeted.Aleksei A. Navalny returned to his home country Sunday, five months after a near-fatal nerve-agent attack, and was arrested at the border, a show of fearlessness by Russia’s most prominent opposition leader and of anxiety by President Vladimir V. Putin.