Russia court orders arrest of Navalny’s widow, Yulia Navalnaya, in absentia
Al Jazeera
Yulia Navalnaya is accused of participating in an ‘extremist’ group and she faces at least two-month jail if she returns to Russia from exile.
A court in Moscow has ordered the imprisonment of Yulia Navalnaya – widow of late Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny – for two months.
The court accused Navalnaya, who lives in exile, of participating in an “extremist” group. The decision means she faces certain arrest if she sets foot in the country.
Navalnaya, 47, stepped into the spotlight following her husband’s death in an Arctic penal colony in February, and said she will continue the fight for what Navalny called the “beautiful Russia of the future”.
Writing on X on Tuesday, Navalnaya told her supporters to focus not on the court order against her, but on the battle against Russian President Vladimir Putin.
“When you write about this, please don’t forget to write the main thing: Vladimir Putin is a murderer and a war criminal,” she wrote.
