Navalny calls his arrest ‘lawlessness of the highest order’

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Alexei Navalny has appeared in court for the first time following his arrest at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo airport, amid growing international condemnation of the Russian opposition leader’s detention. In a video Navalny asked why a court hearing was being held in a police station and described it as ‘lawlessness of the highest order’.

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