MOSCOW — Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny
was arrested yesterday at a Moscow airport as he tried to enter the country
from Germany, where he had spent five months recovering from nerve agent
poisoning that he blames on the Kremlin.
Navalny's detention at passport control in Moscow’s
Sheremetyevo airport was widely expected because Russia’s prisons service said
he had violated parole terms from a suspended sentence on a 2014 embezzlement
conviction.
The prisons service said he would be held in
custody until a court rules on his case. No date for a court appearance was
immediately announced. The service earlier said that it would seek to have
Navalny serve his 3 1/2-year sentence behind bars.
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