Moscow:
Russia’s prison service on Monday gave Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny a final minute ultimatum: Fly back from Germany at when and report at a Moscow workplace early on Tuesday morning, or be jailed if you return soon after that deadline.
Navalny, a single of President Vladimir Putin’s major critics, was airlifted to Germany for remedy in August soon after collapsing on a plane in what Germany and other Western nations say was an try to murder him with a Novichok nerve agent.
Russia has stated it has observed no proof he was poisoned and has denied any involvement in the incident.
The Federal Prison Service (FSIN) on Monday accused Navalny of violating the terms of a suspended prison sentence he is nevertheless serving out more than a conviction dating from 2014, and of evading the supervision of Russia’s criminal inspection authority.
Citing an report in the British healthcare publication The Lancet about his remedy, it stated Navalny had been discharged from hospital in Berlin on Sept. 20 and that all symptoms of what it named his illness had vanished by Oct. 12.
“Therefore the convicted man is not fulfilling all of the obligations placed on him by the court, and is evading the supervision of the Criminal Inspectorate,” it stated.
Navalny is serving out a suspended 3-and-a-half-year prison term more than a theft case he says was politically-motivated. His probation period expires on Dec. 30.
The prison service stated in a statement late on Monday that it had summoned Navalny to report to the inspection authority and that his suspended sentence could be changed to a true jail term if his suspected violations of the terms of the suspended sentence had been verified to be accurate.
The prison service pointed out no deadline, but Navalny posted a screenshot of a message to his lawyer which stated he had till 0900 on Tuesday to return and show up at a Moscow workplace.
His spokeswoman, Kira Yarmysh, stated on Twitter, it was not possible for Navalny to return in time, that he was nevertheless convalescing soon after his poisoning, and accused the prison service of acting on orders from the Kremlin.
“There’s no way he could appear at the Moscow Criminal Inspectorate tomorrow. But does the FSIN really care about common sense? They were given an order, they are fulfilling it,” she wrote.
The Kremlin has stated Navalny is free of charge to return to Russia at any time like any other Russian citizen.
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