On Wednesday 17 January, 3 years to the day since Alexei Navalny returned to Russia, the High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs, Josep Borrell, reiterated the EU’s call for the immediate and unconditional release of Mr Navalny and of all political prisoners in Russia.
Extremely concerned about the state of health of several of these political prisoners, which is aggravated by “by prison conditions, ill-treatment and lack of access to adequate medical care”, the High...