Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was detained Monday on his release from prison after serving a 30-day sentence for an unauthorised protest, his spokesperson said.
“Alexei Navalny was detained outside the detention centre,” Kira Yarmysh wrote on Twitter, adding that the politician was taken to a central Moscow police station.
Yarmysh said Navalny was accused of violating a different protest law and faces up to 20 days in prison. He is due to appear in court later on Monday, she said.
Navalny was in jail for a month for a protest he organised on January 28, violating Russia’s strict laws which forbid any public event without city hall’s authorisation.
He accused authorities of sending him to prison to keep him from holding a protest on September 9 against the government’s retirement age hike that coincided with local elections.
