Russian opposition politician Navalny released from jail - spokeswoman

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny walks out of a detention centre after he was jailed for 30 days for calling an unauthorised protest in Moscow, Russia August 23, 2019. REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina - Copyright EVGENIA NOVOZHENINA(Reuters)

By Reuters

Published on 23/08/2019 - 08:32•Updated 11/05/2024 - 05:16

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MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny was released on Friday after 30 days in prison, his spokeswoman Kira Yarmysh said on Twitter.

Navalny, a prominent Kremlin critic, was jailed on charges of violating Russia's protest laws after he called for people to demonstrate in central Moscow over the exclusion of opposition candidates from a local election next month.

(Reporting by Anton Kolodyazhnyy; Writing by Anastasia Teterevleva; editing by John Stonestreet)

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Russian opposition politician Navalny released from jail - spokeswoman

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