European Court of Human Rights slams Russia for arrest of opposition leader
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- Russian Federation
Russia's repeated arrests and detention of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were politically-motivated and breached his human rights, Europe's top human rights court ruled on Thursday.
The European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg said Navalny had been subject to seven such arrests in 2012 and in 2014 and said that at least two of the arrests had been designed to suppress political pluralism.
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