Russian courts halt cases against Alexei Navalny after jailed activist disappears | Alexei Navalny | The Guardian
Russian courts halt cases against Alexei Navalny after jailed activist disappears | Alexei Navalny | The Guardian
Judges halt seven judicial hearings as UN official says his absence amounts to ‘forced disappearance’
A regime like Putin's is stable until it suddenly is not. Russia has a lot of dark times ahead of it.
48Russians honestly are mostly waiting for those times; chaos is frightening, but stable decline into a dystopia is even worse.
Besides, keeping on with "stable" regime means losing many, many lives; possibly way more than a radical change can entail. But that depends on who and how comes to power.
1Unlike the US, right?
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Hopefully he disappeared because someone thinks he might make for a good replacement of someone in the future, but more likely they finally tortured him to death and destroyed his body so he can't become a martyr.
26Be careful what you wish for, he's more hard line than Putin. War in Ukraine? He thinks Russia isn't sending enough troops, and he wants all of Ukraine. Way worse for LGBTQ+ rights than Putin, and that's not easy to do. He almost makes Putin look like a human rights activist.
-36Do you have any sources for this information?
12You got any sources for that or did it just spill out of your ass?
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7Disappointing.
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Any possibillity this could be the final spark before the powder keg detonates?
20This is the best summary I could come up with:
Russian judges have halted new criminal proceedings for the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny as supporters say he has not contacted his lawyers in nearly two weeks and a UN official has said his absence amounted to a “forced disappearance”.
Courts halted seven judicial hearings on Monday “until [Navalny’s] whereabouts [is] established”, his lawyers said, further raising concerns that the Kremlin critic could be muzzled or even killed as Vladimir Putin has announced plans to extend his rule for a fifth presidential term.
Kira Yarmysh, an aide to Navalny, said his team had sent requests to nearly 200 Russian pre-trial detention centres searching for more information on the missing opposition leader but had not been able to find him.
The Kremlin has not answered questions on Navalny’s whereabouts, with Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying his team had “neither the intention nor the ability to track the fate of prisoners.”
Mr Navalny’s lawyers, who have been prevented from meeting him since 6 December, were told by the court that their client is no longer held in the Vladimir region, without providing any further details,” Katzarova said.
Navalny’s supporters have launched an anti-Putin guerrilla campaign including billboards in Moscow, St Petersburg and Novosibirsk with a QR-code linking to a website that calls for Putin critics to use nonviolent “partisan” tactics to voice their dissent.
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