Locked away for almost three years
Navalny’s team is calling for protests – including in Germany
January 10, 2024, 11:21 a.m
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Kremlin leader Putin has now locked Navalny away in a notorious prison in the polar region. The Russian opposition’s supporters are now calling for protests – but only abroad. Demonstrations are to take place in ten German cities.
Supporters of Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny have called for demonstrations around the world to mark the third anniversary of his imprisonment on January 21st. It is said that Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin had Navalny locked behind the Arctic Circle in order to silence him. “Don’t let Putin win,” wrote Navalny’s chief strategist Leonid Volkov, who fled abroad, on his Telegram channel on Tuesday evening.
However, demonstrations are only planned abroad – because of the strong repression in Russia. Demonstrations should be particularly active in Germany. Ten venues are listed here: Berlin, Hamburg, Munich, Cologne, Frankfurt am Main, Stuttgart, Hanover, Saarbrücken, Ludwigshafen and Göttingen. Navalny himself has been in the notorious “Polarwelt” prison in the ice-cold Siberian Yamal region since December.
There he had now been sentenced again to seven days of criminal arrest, he announced on Tuesday via his Telegram channel. The reason is that he didn’t introduce himself properly. The politician, who was sentenced to 19 years in prison for alleged extremism, took it with irony. When we went out in the morning at 6:30 a.m. in the polar night and minus 32 degrees, “wonderfully fresh air blew into the yard despite the wall,” he wrote.