OHCHR / NAVALNY SENTENCING

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) is “deeply dismayed by the sentencing of Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny by a court in Moscow on Monday." OHCHR

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:56
• Production Date: 3 February 2021
• Asset Language: English
• Corporate Name: OFFICE OF THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS - OHCHR
• Subject Topical: DETAINED PERSONS
• Geographic Subject: RUSSIAN FEDERATION
• MAMS Id: 2600742
• Parent Id: 2600742
• Alternate Title: unifeed210203a

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STORY: OHCHR / NAVALNY SENTENCING
TRT:0:56
SOURCE: OHCHR
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 03 FEBRUARY 2021, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND / FILE

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03 FEBRUARY 2021, GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

2. SOUNDBITE (English) Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR):

“We urge the authorities in Russia to immediately release all those detained for exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression yesterday and over the past few weeks of protests across the country. There are reports that the number of people arrested yesterday was as high as 1,400. The Government must ensure that demonstrations are handled in line with its obligations under international human rights law. We are deeply dismayed by the sentencing of Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny by a court in Moscow yesterday to imprisonment* for allegedly violating the conditions of a 2014 suspended sentence in an embezzlement case that the European Court of Human Rights had in 2017 already unanimously found to be arbitrary, unfair and manifestly unreasonable.”

RECENT – GENEVA, SWITZERLAND

3.Wide shot, exterior Palais des nations

Storyline

The UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR) is “deeply dismayed by the sentencing of Russian opposition figure Aleksei Navalny by a court in Moscow on Monday (2 Feb) to imprisonment for allegedly violating the conditions of a 2014 suspended sentence in an embezzlement case that the European Court of Human Rights had in 2017 already unanimously found to be arbitrary, unfair and manifestly unreasonable.”

In a recorded video message, Ravina Shamdasani, Spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said, “we urge the authorities in Russia to immediately release all those detained for exercising their right to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression yesterday and over the past few weeks of protests across the country.”

She continued, “there are reports that the number of people arrested yesterday was as high as 1,400. The Government must ensure that demonstrations are handled in line with its obligations under international human rights law.”

* The judge converted the former 3.5-year sentence Navalny received in 2014 to a custodial sentence, which, given the credit for time already spent under house arrest, amounts to an outstanding sentence of two years and eight months.