{"id":119692,"date":"2023-12-19T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-12-19T07:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/russian-courts-halt-cases-against-alexei-navalny-after-jailed-activist-disappears\/"},"modified":"2023-12-19T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-12-19T07:00:30","slug":"russian-courts-halt-cases-against-alexei-navalny-after-jailed-activist-disappears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/russian-courts-halt-cases-against-alexei-navalny-after-jailed-activist-disappears\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian courts halt cases against Alexei Navalny after jailed activist disappears"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119692\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nRussian judges have halted new criminal proceedings for the jailed opposition leader Alexei Navalny as supporters say he has not contacted his lawyers in nearly two weeks and a UN official has said his absence amounted to a \u201cforced disappearance\u201d. Courts halted seven judicial hearings on Monday \u201cuntil [Navalny\u2019s] whereabouts [is] established\u201d, his lawyers said, further raising concerns that the Kremlin critic could be muzzled or even killed as Vladimir Putin has announced plans to extend his rule for a fifth presidential term.<\/p>\n<p>Navalny, who has been sentenced to nearly three decades in prison, disappeared from a prison in the Vladimir region near Moscow last week, and was suspected to have been transferred into a \u201cspecial regime\u201d colony, where he could be held incommunicado under Russia\u2019s harshest prison regime for years. Kira Yarmysh, an aide to Navalny, said his team had sent requests to nearly 200 Russian pre-trial detention centres searching for more information on the missing opposition leader but had not been able to find him.<\/p>\n<p>The Kremlin has not answered questions on Navalny\u2019s whereabouts, with Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying his team had \u201cneither the intention nor the ability to track the fate of prisoners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Supporters are also worried that he may have been hospitalised after collapsing earlier this month due to poor sanitation and nutrition in Vladimir\u2019s IK-6 prison, where he was serving a prison sentence on fraud charges. He was sentenced to a further 19 years in a \u201cspecial regime\u201d colony on extremism charges in August. He has contended that the charges against him are political.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am greatly concerned that the Russian authorities will not disclose Mr Navalny\u2019s whereabouts and wellbeing for such a prolonged period of time, which amounts to enforced disappearance,\u201d said Mariana Katzarova, the UN special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Russian Federation. \u201cI have learned that the court hearing on the violations of Mr Navalny\u2019s human rights in detention, scheduled for Friday, did not take place. Mr Navalny\u2019s lawyers, who have been prevented from meeting him since 6 December, were told by the court that their client is no longer held in the Vladimir region, without providing any further details,\u201d Katzarova said.<\/p>\n<p>Navalny\u2019s disappearance comes as Putin launches his campaign for a fifth presidential term. He is the longest-serving Kremlin leader since Stalin and could surpass him if he continues to run for a sixth term in power. Navalny\u2019s supporters have launched an anti-Putin guerrilla campaign including billboards in Moscow, St Petersburg and Novosibirsk with a QR-code linking to a website that calls for Putin critics to use nonviolent \u201cpartisan\u201d tactics to voice their dissent.<\/p>\n<p>Navalny was poisoned in Russia with novichok in 2020, evacuated to Germany for treatment, and then returned to Russia in 2021, where he was arrested, convicted on fraud and extremism charges, and sentenced to three decades in prison. His supporters say he has suffered from mysterious stomach ailments in prison and believe that he is likely to be kept in prison for as long as Putin remains in power.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/dec\/18\/courts-halt-cases-against-alexei-navalny-after-disappearance-of-jailed-activist\">The Guardian<\/a> <\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/122805\/\">Russian courts halt cases against Alexei Navalny after jailed activist disappears<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[1821,4571,10807,588,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-119692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-case","tag-halt","tag-navalny","tag-russia","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}