Russian dissident Alexei Navalny was due to speak on Tuesday 19 January at a hearing organised by the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe as part of a report on his poisoning in August. Arrested as soon as he arrived in Moscow last Sunday, he was not allowed to do so by the Russian authorities, who, for their part, refused to participate in this online event and to express their point of view as they had been invited to do. The Assembly’s Committee on Legal Affairs and Human...