A Moscow court orders the arrest of Yulia Navalnaya

The widow of the Russian dissident, who now lives abroad, is accused of extremism and risks ending up in handcuffs if she were to travel to her homeland.She:“Putin is a murderer”

Last updated July 11, 2024

The Basmanny court in Moscow has tidy the arrest of Yulia Navalnaya, the widow of the Russian dissident Alexei Navalny, died last February during detention in a maximum security prison inArctic Russian.According to what we learn, Yulia Navalnaya is accused of being part of "a community extremist” and for this reason he risks arrest for at least two months if he were to travel to the territory of the Russian Federation.

“Yulia Borisovna is hiding from the investigative authorities,” reads one Note released by the court press service.As the independent newspaper points out Meduza, the court press service reportedly announced Navalnaya's arrest in absentia immediately after the end of the working day, according to the newspaper to deliberately hide information about the process which should have been held in public mode, but which would have been held in the early afternoon of yesterday, 9 July, without everyone's knowledge.

“Oh, what will be the usual procedure?A foreign agent, then the opening of a criminal case, then the arrest?!When you write it, please don't forget to write the main thing:That Vladimir Putin he is a murderer and a war criminal.Its place is in prison, and not somewhere in The Hague, in a cozy cell with a TV, but in Russia, in the same colony and in the same 2 x 3 meter cell where he killed Alexei,” replied Yulia Navalnaya on X (formerly Twitter ).

After the death of her husband, Yulia Navalnaya, who currently lives abroad, promised to continue the work of Aleksei, who had created the Anti-corruption foundation, inserted on the list of “foreign agents” by the Russian government in 2019 and then declared an extremist organization.

After the arrest warrant, Yulia Navalnaya was also included in the list of “terrorists and extremists“.Now his name appears on the list of Rosfinmonitoring, the Russian financial intelligence service.