Russian courts halt cases against Alexei Navalny after jailed activist disappears
www.theguardian.com
Judges halt seven judicial hearings as UN official says his absence amounts to ‘forced disappearance’
  • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    671·
    11 个月前

    I’ll never understand why he intentionally let himself be captured by Russia. The outcome was inevitable.

    • ANIMATEK@lemmy.worldEnglish
      573·
      11 个月前

      He is so notorious because he was willing to selflessly put himself in the frontline to prove a point.

        • Risk@feddit.ukEnglish
          351·
          11 个月前

          Martyrdom. Navalny knew what it would mean to return; he also knew the risk of not returning (constantly trying to avoid shitty assassination attempts with collateral damage).

            • Plopp@lemmy.worldEnglish
              14·
              11 个月前

              Speaking of… When was the last time we heard from Snowden? Haven’t seen his name in the media since basically the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

                • Heresy_generator@kbin.social
                  46·
                  11 个月前

                  LMAO. Yeah, that’s why he ran to hide under Putin’s skirt; because he didn’t want to be used as a pawn in Russian propaganda.

            • Risk@feddit.ukEnglish
              31·
              11 个月前

              I don’t know whether it had a significant impact in Russia, but the rest of the world only knows/cares about the guy because he went back. Otherwise he’d just be yet another person murdered by Putin’s regime.

        • acutfjg@feddit.nlEnglish
          62·
          11 个月前

          The only thing not making sense is how you’re not understanding the concept.

          • chitak166@lemmy.worldEnglish
            12·
            11 个月前

            I guess you’re right.

            Maybe he did have a greater impact getting poisoned, imprisoned, and ‘defenestrated’ than he would have had outside of Russia.

            Time will tell, I won’t hold my breath.

            Personally, I think you’re just finding ways to agree with the crowd even if they’re wrong. I don’t hold most people above that behavior.

    • KISSmyOS@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19·
      11 个月前

      In a Russian prison, he acts as a symbol for the opposition. And if Putin should fall, the opposition can free him and have a credible leader who’s shown that he puts his ideals over his own safety.
      In the west, he’d be completely without influence on anything or anyone inside Russia, now and in the future.

      Basically he gambled that Putin will die before him.

      • anlumo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4·
        11 个月前

        Basically he gambled that Putin will die before him.

        Well, that didn’t work out as planned for him.

  • Rubezahl@lemmy.worldEnglish
    502·
    11 个月前

    A regime like Putin’s is stable until it suddenly is not. Russia has a lot of dark times ahead of it.

    • Sanyanov@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      11 个月前

      Russians honestly are mostly waiting for those times; chaos is frightening, but stable decline into a dystopia is even worse.

      Besides, keeping on with “stable” regime means losing many, many lives; possibly way more than a radical change can entail. But that depends on who and how comes to power.

  • extant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27·
    11 个月前

    Hopefully he disappeared because someone thinks he might make for a good replacement of someone in the future, but more likely they finally tortured him to death and destroyed his body so he can’t become a martyr.

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    11·
    11 个月前

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    Russian 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 “forced disappearance”.

    Courts halted seven judicial hearings on Monday “until [Navalny’s] whereabouts [is] established”, 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.

    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.

    The Kremlin has not answered questions on Navalny’s whereabouts, with Putin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov saying his team had “neither the intention nor the ability to track the fate of prisoners.”

    Mr Navalny’s 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,” Katzarova said.

    Navalny’s 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 “partisan” tactics to voice their dissent.

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