Alexei Navalny ‘deliberately moved to be arrested’, claims Putin

Navalny, Putin’s most ardent political foe, was given a 2 1/2-year jail time period for violating the phrases of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction. Russian President Vladimir Putin (AP photograph)Russian President Vladimir Putin says opposition chief Alexei Navalny acquired what he deserved when he was handed a jail sentence.Navalny, Putin’s most ardent political foe, was arrested in January upon getting back from Germany, the place he spent 5 months recovering from a nerve agent poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin — an accusation that Russian officers reject. In February, Navalny was given a 2 1/2-year jail time period for violating the phrases of a suspended sentence from a 2014 embezzlement conviction that he dismissed as politically motivated.Speaking Wednesday after a summit with US President Joe Biden in Geneva, Putin mentioned Navalny acquired his due punishment for violating the phrases of his probation, including that he was conscious that he was dealing with a jail sentence when he returned to Russia.ALSO READ | Putin inks regulation to ban ‘extremists’ from elections amid Navalny crackdown“He deliberately moved to be arrested,” Putin mentioned, sticking to his behavior of not mentioning Navalny by identify.Last week, a Moscow courtroom outlawed the organisations based by Navalny by labelling them extremist, the most recent transfer in a marketing campaign to silence dissent and bar Kremlin critics from working for parliament in September.Click right here for IndiaToday.in’s full protection of the coronavirus pandemic.