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General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on November 13, 2018, 04:44:17 pm
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Russian opposition leader Navalny barred from leaving Russia
MOSCOW — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was stopped at the border Tuesday and barred from leaving Russia as he was about to travel to a court hearing at the European Court for Human Rights in France.
Navalny said in a blog post on Tuesday that he was due to attend a hearing at the ECHR which is expected to rule if his countless detentions have been politically motivated. He was stopped by border guards and told that a ruling by court bailiffs has barred him from leaving Russia.
The hearing in Strasbourg on Thursday could prove a major embarrassment for the Kremlin which routinely dismisses Navalny, arguably Russia's most popular opposition figure, as a trouble-maker with no political backing.
Read more at: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-opposition-leader-navalny-barred-from-leaving-russia/ar-BBPDWWX?OCID=ansmsnnews11 (https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russian-opposition-leader-navalny-barred-from-leaving-russia/ar-BBPDWWX?OCID=ansmsnnews11)