The Navalny case: The Russian Interior Ministry has asked the court, in which Alexei Navalny was taken today, to imprison the Kremlin critic for 30 days, Navalny's lawyer Ivan Zhdanov wrote in a twitter post.
A Russian Interior Ministry spokeswoman, speaking on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the media, said Navalny had been sentenced to 30 days in prison.
Western nations have demanded that Russia immediately release Navalny, who was arrested Sunday afternoon at Moscow airport on his way back from Germany, where he had been hospitalized since last August when he was poisoned with a neurotoxic agent from the Novitsok family.
Sources: Reuters, Novaya Gazeta
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