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❗️Alexei Navalny was poisoned. The examination results.
We have obtained the results of an independent examination of Alexei Navalny’s biological samples, which were taken out of Russia after his death in prison. We now know with certainty that Alexei was poisoned — and we know exactly with what.
Today, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Sweden, and the Netherlands publicly confirmed the poisoning.
Laboratories identified epibatidine in the samples — a powerful neurotoxin derived from the skin of an Ecuadorian poison dart frog. This substance is classified as a prohibited chemical agent. Only the Russian authorities had the motive, the means, and the opportunity to administer such a toxin inside a high-security penal colony.
We now know the truth: Vladimir Putin poisoned Alexei Navalny with a chemical weapon.
❗️ UN Rules Imprisonment of Alexey Navalny’s Lawyers Unlawful and Calls for Their Immediate Release
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found that Vadim Kobzev and Alexey Liptser are being held in Russian penal colonies in violation of international law. The experts called for their immediate release, compensation, and an investigation into the circumstances of their persecution.
According to the UN, the lawyers were deprived of their liberty solely because of their professional activities — defending Alexey Navalny. The experts identified violations of the right to a fair trial, including closed-door proceedings, the refusal to hear defense witnesses, breaches of attorney-client privilege, and the lack of an independent tribunal. They also found that the charge of participating in an “extremist community” was worded so vaguely that it could be used to arbitrarily prosecute political opponents.
The Russian authorities failed to provide the UN Working Group with any arguments justifying the lawfulness of their actions in prosecuting Navalny’s lawyers.
Vadim Kobzev and Alexey Liptser must be released immediately.
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The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) has determined that Russia’s detention of Vadim Kobzev and Alexei Liptser, two former lawyers for late opposition leader Alexei @navalny, is arbitrary and violates international law, following a submission from HRF.
@yulia_navalnaya @acf_int
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The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has found that the criminal prosecution of Navalny’s lawyers involved grave violations. 🇷🇺 has been requested to release them.
Vadim Kobzev and Alexei Liptser were deprived of their liberty and imprisoned in contravention of numerous provisions of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
In its extensive Opinion No. 51/2026 (ohchr.org/en/special-procedu…), prepared within its quasi-judicial procedure, the Working Group stated that:
1. The provision under which the lawyers were convicted (article 282.1 of the Criminal Code) is vague and overly broad. A person cannot know in advance what is prohibited and regulate their conduct accordingly. This amounts, in effect, to the application of repressive legislation specially created by the Russian authorities against the lawyers.
2. The detention was linked exclusively to activities intrinsic to legal representation. The lawyers did not commit any criminal acts; they were simply performing their professional functions as lawyers for Alexei Navalny.
3. The proceedings were conducted with the most serious violations of the right to a fair trial:
- closed hearings without adequate justification;
- manifestly unequal and biased treatment of evidence (favouring the prosecution and rejecting relevant defence evidence);
- violation of the presumption of innocence;
- lack of an independent and impartial tribunal, together with the violation of attorney-client privilege.
The proceedings bore no resemblance to genuine justice.
This is not the opinion of human rights activists, but a legal analysis by the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention concluding that the deprivation of liberty is arbitrary and results from the peaceful exercise of human rights, including freedom of expression and association, in the context of politically motivated persecution.
Vadim Kobzev, Alexei Navalny's lawyer, is serving five and a half years in a remote prison, fifteen hundred kilometres from home.
His courage deserves to be remembered.
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When Alexei Navalny was sentenced to nine years in prison, Alexei Liptser fought to stop the authorities from completely isolating him and from breaking him through deliberately brutal conditions.
For carrying out his professional duty, Alexei Liptser was himself sentenced to five years in prison and sent more than three thousand kilometres east of his home, far from his wife and young child.
Russian authorities have added one of our team’s investigators to their list of “terrorists and extremists.”
In Russia, investigating Putin’s corruption and telling the truth are now considered as extremism.
We will continue our work.
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Vadim Kobzev and Alexei Liptser, former lawyers for late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, have been detained since Oct. 13, 2023, on politically motivated charges of “extremism” because of their work as his attorneys.
In an interview from detention, Vadim reflects on his arrest and imprisonment, citing Don Quixote: “Perhaps we achieved nothing, perhaps we defeated no one, but at least we can look at ourselves without disgust.”
HRF calls for Russia to free Vadim Kobzev and Alexei Liptser, and echoes Kobzev’s vision of a future in which the world moves for those who refuse to yield in the face of oppression and authoritarianism.
Learn more → hrf.org/latest/dispatches-fr…
#DispatchesfromDetention #VadimKobzev #AlexeiLiptser @ACF_int
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Who is Umar Kremlev, the Putin-linked oligarch who has become incredibly close to Donald Trump's son?
For eleven years Vadim Kobzev was the lawyer for Russia’s leading opposition politician.
In October 2023, the authorities arrested Vadim Kobzev together with other members of Navalny’s legal team. He was sentenced to five and a half years in a remote penal colony — punishment for refusing to sell out, for refusing to give up, and for carrying out his professional duty to the very end.
Free Alexei Navalny’s lawyers!
For many years, Venezuela 🇻🇪 was an ally of Vladimir Putin. The dictatorship of Chávez and Maduro fought against its own people and destroyed the country's future.
Today, opposition leader María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela. This is a chance for democracy and freedom in Venezuela!
Journalists are in prison for doing their professional work.
They are Putin’s hostages.
Journalism is not a crime. Freedom for political prisoners!
Putin’s War Is Getting More Expensive. Guess Who’s Paying
Russia’s economy is struggling, but history gives us little reason to believe that making Russians poorer will persuade Putin to stop fighting.
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Free Alexei Navalny’s lawyers!
Alexei Navalny’s lawyers, Vadim Kobzev and Alexei Liptser, courageously defended him against baseless and absurd charges, despite the inhumane conditions and total isolation he endured.
Thanks to their efforts, we know how Navalny was deprived of sleep and medical care, and kept in a freezing solitary confinement cell for months. For that, they were themselves arrested and sent to penal colonies thousands of kilometres away from their families.
They are true heroes who now deserve the same attention and support they once gave to others.
Today in Madrid 🇪🇸, @yulia_navalnaya received the Freedom Award from the Foundation for Analysis and Social Studies (Fundación para el Análisis y los Estudios Sociales — FAES), which is headed by former Spanish Prime Minister José María Aznar.
Previous recipients include Margaret Thatcher, former king of Spain Juan Carlos I, and other distinguished figures. Navalnaya shared this award with the prominent Iranian dissident Masih Alinejad, and Cuban dissident Rosa María Payá.
Bewilderment and Frustration.
Those are the main feelings after the EU's biggest sanctions package yet against Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
🪖 Putin Needs More Soldiers. Here’s How He Gets Them.
Russia has developed an extensive system for sending men to war without declaring another mass mobilization.
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Let me say what troubles me about this position.
First, the inconsistency.
From the very beginning of the war in Ukraine, my colleagues and I urged that sanctions be extended to the family members of the Russian political elite. This would have been even more effective than sanctioning the officials themselves: children and spouses can exert pressure on the regime’s beneficiaries. Yet the European Union could not bring itself to adopt such a policy.
“Children are not responsible for their fathers’ actions,” we were told. Yet for some reason all Russians are held accountable for the actions of a government they have no power to influence: elections in Russia are rigged, protests are brutally suppressed, and opponents of the regime are imprisoned or killed.
As a result, sanctions do not even apply to relatives who act as nominal asset holders and beneficiaries of criminal schemes involving officials close to Putin — for example, Varvara Skoch (Manturova), the daughter of sanctioned MP Andrei Skoch and the daughter-in-law of Russian Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov, who is responsible for the entire military industry.
Second, the unfairness. Visa restrictions are imposed only on poor Russians. The wealthy hold second citizenships acquired with money gained through corruption.
The aforementioned Varvara Skoch holds a passport from Cyprus, an EU country. I recently published an investigation showing that the daughter-in-law of Russian Deputy Defence Minister Leonid Gornin had also acquired a second citizenship through real estate investment.
It is the poor, not the rich, who suffer most from the restrictions placed on Russians. Take, for example, Alexei Zolotarev, a major contractor for the Ministry of Defence — I investigated him as well. He bought himself Maltese citizenship and a villa in France. He vacations in Courchevel while the war is ongoing. Meanwhile, Russians who do not hold a second passport are prohibited from crossing the borders of a number of EU countries.
Thirdly, the ineffectiveness. One of the arguments for the new visa restrictions on Russians is security. However, Russian intelligence agencies have long used agents holding passports not from Russia, but from EU countries, Ukraine or the Balkans — who are entitled to visa-free entry into the Schengen Area — to carry out acts of sabotage.
We must stop issuing tourist visas for Russian citizens across the EU.
I have invited other EU Member States to join a letter addressed to the European Commission. I am calling for a complete EU ban on Russian tourist visas for as long as Russia continues its war of aggression.
It is not right that Russians can travel to Europe to enjoy the way of life and freedoms here while their country bombs the homes of Ukrainians. Issuing visas to Russians for non-essential travel was banned in Finland already in 2022. The same must finally happen at the EU level.
I am also calling for a ban on Schengen visas to Putin’s inner circle, visa restrictions for Russian athletes, and the effective implementation of the visa ban on Russian combatants.
The EU must act together.
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🪖 Putin Can’t Win His War, but He Can Make Everyone Else Suffer
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