{"id":186549,"date":"2021-03-02T10:03:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=186549"},"modified":"2021-03-02T10:03:13","modified_gmt":"2021-03-02T15:03:13","slug":"un-navalnys-poisoning-imprisonment-are-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/un-navalnys-poisoning-imprisonment-are-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"UN: Navalny\u2019s poisoning &amp; imprisonment are illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fun-navalnys-poisoning-imprisonment-are-illegal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=186549&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2380222\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2380222\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE \u2013 In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021 file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures as he stands behind a grass of the cage in the Babuskinsky District Court in Moscow, Russia. Navalny was taken to a prison in Pokrov city after Moscow city court rejected appeal against his prison sentence on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2021. (AP Photo\/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 6:58 AM PT \u2013 Tuesday, March 2, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>The United Nations has expressed support for Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny. On Monday, the intergovernmental organization said the chemical attack against Navalny and his eventual incarceration is an attempt to crack down on political opposition by the Putin regime.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe attempt on Mr. Navalny\u2019s life did not happen in a vacuum, it happened because of who he is and what he has been doing,\u201d stated Irene Khan, Special Rapporteur for Free Speech (UN). \u201cHe\u2019s a politician and an anti-corruption activist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations also refuted claims by Russian state media that falsely accused Navalny of hate speech towards migrants.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no excuse, no justification for the violations that Mr. Navalny has suffered,\u201d Khan continued. \u201cThe right to life, his right not to be tortured, his right to have free speech, to carry out his political activities \u2014 none of that is affected by what he may or may not have said before.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Human rights experts <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AgnesCallamard?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@AgnesCallamard<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Irenekhan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Irenekhan<\/a> say an international investigation into the sinister poisoning of Alexei <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Navalny?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Navalny<\/a> must remain a priority, stress the urgent need to find the truth on what happened to him and ensure accountability. \u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/1fz28iq6JJ\">https:\/\/t.co\/1fz28iq6JJ<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iFVrt8sYZI\">pic.twitter.com\/iFVrt8sYZI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 UN Geneva (@UNGeneva) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UNGeneva\/status\/1366382894923546635?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 1, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The United Nations is now considering a probe into Navalny\u2019s poisoning and incarceration. It noted these actions were undertaken by the Putin regime in violation of both Russian and international law.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/youtube-suspends-giuliani-again-for-questioning-election-fraud\/\">YouTube suspends Giuliani again for questioning election fraud<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FILE \u2013 In this Saturday, Feb. 20, 2021 file photo, Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny gestures as he stands behind a grass of the cage in the Babuskinsky District Court &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2274551,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2274551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}